Ex-London schoolgirl, 19, who fled to join ISIS with two friends flees while ...

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One of three schoolgirls who fled England to join the ranks of Islamic State in Syria has pleaded with authorities to let her come home.

Shamima Begum, 19, has been found in a refugee camp in Northern Syria four years after she ran away from home in Bethnal Green in London in February 2015.

Begum who left London with classmates Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase says she 'will do anything' to come home and live a normal life.

From Bethnal Green Academy is and close to giving birth, according to The Times' Anthony Loyd who met her in Syria.

The former London schoolgirl watched as her two elder children died from malnutrition before she decided to escape the last ISIS stronghold in eastern Syria to save the life of her unborn child.

'I could not endure the suffering and hardship that staying on the battlefield involved,' she told The Times.

'But I was also frightened that the child I am about to give birth to would die like my other children if I stayed on. So I fled the caliphate. Now all I want to do is come home to Britain.'

Despite begging to return Miss Begum said she has 'no regrets' about leaving the UK.

Islamic State fighters have been surrendering, along with their wives and children, as they flee Baghuz.