The family Does Not Want Any Touch With The Alleged US IS Member.

As she faces federal terrorism charges, the family of a US woman suspected of directing an Islamic State squadron and planned strikes on American soil wants no contact with her.

Prosecutors informed Allison Fluke-Ekren on Monday that a large portion of her family has asked that she not speak to them.

Ms Fluke-Ekren, 42, is accused of instructing women and children in Syria on how to use firearms and suicide vests.

She might be sentenced to up to 20 years in jail.

According to authorities, the former Kansas resident was the leader of Khatiba Nusaybah, an all-female IS battalion stationed in Raqqa, Syria, the group's de-facto capital.

Ms Fluke-principal Ekren's function inside IS, according to a prosecution complaint, was to educate women and children how to use weaponry ranging from AK-47 rifles and grenades to suicide vests.

Ms Fluke-Ekren is also suspected of planning and recruiting agents for a future attack on a US university campus, according to police.

She allegedly informed a witness that she planned to carry out an assault in the United States, in which she would detonate a car bomb in a shopping mall's underground parking garage.

According to a government memorandum supporting her incarceration, she "considered any attack that did not kill a high number of victims to be a waste of resources."

She is now accused with giving material assistance or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, as well as conspiring to do so.