WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Thursday that Hoda Muthana, an American-born woman who joined the Islamic State in 2014 and says she now wants to return home to her family in Alabama, is not a U.S. citizen.
Muthana's father was a former Yemeni diplomat at the time of her birth, and was therefore under the diplomatic protection of his home country.
For this reason, it said, Muthana did not obtain US citizenship by birth.
