The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in a statement said around 30 ISIS Khurasan militants surrendered to Afghan forces in Suki and Narang districts of Kunar.
The statement further added that the ISIS militants also handed over various weapons to the Afghan forces including 23 rifles, hand grenades and military kits.
The ISIS sympathizers have not commented regarding the surrender of the group’s militants so far.
Read more: The Khaama Press
A federal judge has ruled there is ample evidence that a man accused of planning an attack inspired by the Islamic State group at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., isn’t mentally competent to stand trial.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday ordered Rondell Henry to be held in a “suitable” federal Bureau of Prisons facility for up to four months so experts can determine whether he could be competent to be tried in the future. The judge also recommended that Henry be treated at a federal medical center.
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Rafia Sultana Shareef, the mother of one of the shooters in the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack, has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence — apparently a map — related to the attack, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
The 66-year-old Corona woman agreed Monday to plead guilty to one count of alteration, destruction and mutilation of records, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in a statement.
Read more: San Bernardino Sun
A Defense Department linguist was charged with espionage Wednesday for allegedly supplying the names of U.S. intelligence sources to a foreign national linked to the Hebollah terrorist organization.
Federal prosecutors accused Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, of compromising the sources' identities by providing the information to a Lebanese citizen, placing their lives in "grave danger."
"If true, this conduct is a disgrace, especially for someone serving as a contractor with the Unites States military," Assistant Attorney General John Demers said. "This betrayal of country and colleagues will be punished."
Thompson was arrested by FBI agents at a U.S. military facility in Erbil, Iraq, where she held a top secret government security clearance.
Read more: USA Today
A Columbia, Missouri, man was sentenced to 236 months in prison in federal court today for his role in making preparations to launch a terrorist attack with persons he believed were members of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), but who were actually undercover law enforcement employees, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Timothy A. Garrison for the Western District of Missouri.
Robert Lorenzo Hester Jr., 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to 236 months in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Hester to a lifetime of supervised release following incarceration.
Hester pleaded guilty on Sept. 24, 2019, to attempting to provide material support to ISIS from October 2016 to Feb. 17, 2017, knowing that it was a designated foreign terrorist organization that engages in terrorist activity. Hester actively attempted to plot a mass casualty attack with others that he believed were acting on behalf of ISIS. Hester drew the attention of law enforcement through advocating violence on social media, and when contacted by undercover officers, he immediately showed that he wanted action in addition to words. Law enforcement engaged Hester to see if he was truly committed to an act of terrorism, and his responses left no doubt that he was.
Read more: DOJ
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