page_title: Khadr family
section_title: Zaynab Khadr
hierarchical_section_title: Khadr family / Members / Zaynab Khadr
caption_attribution_description: Zaynab Khadr
context_page_description: The Khadr family is an Arab-Canadian family noted for their ties to Osama bin Laden and connections to al-Qaeda.
context_section_description: Zaynab Khadr (in Arabic زينب خضر) (born 1979) is the eldest daughter and first child of Ahmed Khadr, an Egyptian immigrant to Canada noted for being a terrorist and senior al-Qaeda member. Two of her younger brothers, Abdurahman and Omar, were held by the United States as enemy combatants in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp after being captured in Afghanistan in 2002.
  With her family, she grew up in Pakistan and Canada, as they frequently traveled back and forth. Following a severe 1992 injury that left her father disabled, Zaynab became a "second mother" to the younger children of the family. She was married and divorced three times, and has a daughter from her second marriage.
  She and her widowed mother returned to Canada in February 2005. Khadr has since fought for the family members' legal rights to remain there. She has also worked for justice for her brothers. Abdullah Khadr was detained in Pakistan and resisted extradition to the United States; he finally returned to Canada in 2005. Abdurahman Khadr was also detained, but he had claimed to have been working for the United States CIA when he was held as a detainee in Guantanamo Bay detention camp, 2002–2003. In October 2010 her youngest brother Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to charges in a plea agreement, and was repatriated to Canada in 2012 to serve the rest of his eight-year sentence.
  On January 31, 2016, Michelle Shephard and Peter Edwards, writing in the Toronto Star, reported that Zaynab had been apprehended, in Turkey
  for a visa violation
  In August 2017 it was reported that she lived in Sudan with her husband and four children, but by December 2018 she had moved to Georgia
caption: Zaynab Khadr (?) in 2008
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