A people smuggler affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) has confirmed that the three Bradford sisters and their nine children have crossed the border from Turkey into Syria.
As ever more young Britons head to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State, the government is left desperately seeking a strategy to combat the lure of recruitment to jihad.
Concern is again mounting about the radicalisation of young British Muslims, with the news that up to 500 may be fighting in Syria. But despite the gravity of the issue, the public discussion of it is still clouded by lazy stereotypes.
The suspects in the Woolwich murder made no secret of their political motivations for the attack, encouraging photos and smartphone recordings to get their message across, so why aren’t we talking about the UK’s military intervention in the Muslim world?