Alwaght- Saja al-Dulaimi was grown up in a family with radical ideas, her father was an advocate of Baath party. Her father, Hamid al-Dulaimi, was a senior commander of Saddam's Baath Party. After the US invasion to Iraq in 2003, he managed to evade the punishments of the Iraqi popular committees and lived in al-Anbar. Hamid al-Dulaimi, a military adviser to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and one of the creators of the military structure of the ISIS was killed last year in Syria.
Omar al-Dulaimi, another brother of Saja, is the head of one of the ISIS units in Qalamoun, Syria.
Two years ago, her younger brother, Khalid when he was only 15, was actively working in the ranks of the Katiba al-Khazra forces (literally meaning ‘Green Inscriptions’) in Qara front which is currently under the control of the Syrian army.
Doa, the sister of Saja, made an attempt to take revenge on her husband’s death, Harith al-Amir, one of high ranking officials of ISIS in Al-A'amiriya of Baghdad, she tried to blow herself up in a gathering of the Kurds in Erbil, Iraq.
Saja al-Dulaimi has four children.Her first two children, Osameh and Omar, are from her former husband, Falah Ismail al-Jassem, the former commander of the ‘Army of al-Rashedin’ in al-Anbar. He was killed in 2010 in clashes in the province.
After the death of her first husband, Saja al-Dulaimi married Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; the only children they had from this marriage was just a girl named Hajar.
Saja lived for 9 years with the leader of the ISIS in ‘Haye al-Sayedeh Zaynab region’ in Damascus and returned to Iraq after she got divorced from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. She married for the third time, this time with a Palestinian man named ‘Kamal Mohamed Khalaf’. This time, she gave birth to another child. According to the latest reports, until October, Saja was living in ‘Nahr al-Bared Camp’ in Lebanon with her new husband, Kamal Khalaf.
Almost two months ago, following some security issues in the border region of Arsal in East Lebanon in which ISIS terrorist groups and al-Nusra Front, captured a number of the Lebanese army forces and security forces of Lebanon. The Lebanese army arrested Saja al-Dulaimi in one of the schools in the town of Haylan.
Al-Jazeera TV aired footage of the wife and the girl of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi when she was being exchanged for captives of the Lebanese army with the al-Nusra Front terrorist group in Jerud Arsal.
While she was being exchanged, Saja al-Dulaimi said in a response to reporters: Yes, I was, as they say, the wife of Baghdadi. However, I got divorced from him 7 years before.
Ex-wife of the leader of the ISIS terrorist group in response to the questions on what country she intend to live in the future, said: “I would travel from Beirut to Turkey and then I will choose a place to live.
