France, Dec. 19 -- Carole Sun was convicted at the end of a three-day trial by the special assize court in Paris. The sentence includes five years of supervision after her release and a court-ordered requirement for medical treatment, judicial sources said.

Sun left France for Syria in July 2014 when she was 18, travelling with her older brother. She was arrested in December 2017 by Kurdish forces while fleeing along the Euphrates River during the collapse of the Islamic State group, the court heard.

The convoy included several well-known female jihadists, including Emilie Konig, a notorious recruiter and the first woman to be put on the US's international terrorist blacklist.

France's domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI, viewed the...