give allegiance to

For most, the fighting has gone on for so long that sides are irrelevant; they’ll give allegiance to whoever stops the carnage.

“I am a father of daughters. I did not give allegiance to the organization.”

They said the militants were also forcing locals to give allegiance to the group, which declared an Islamic caliphate in June.

Johnson said those who “continue to give allegiance to a terrorist state” should lose their British citizenship and called for a “swift and minor change” to the law so there was a “rebuttable presumption” that those visiting war areas without notifying the authorities had done so for a terrorist purpose.

Mr Johnson said people who continued to give allegiance to a terrorist state should have their citizenship taken away.