WarMonitor on Nostr: Mohammad Sharifullah has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for providing ...
Mohammad Sharifullah has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for providing material support to ISIS-K, five years after the group’s suicide bombing at Kabul’s Abbey Gate killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 160 Afghans.
A federal jury convicted Sharifullah in April of participating in a nine-year ISIS-K support conspiracy. Prosecutors said he surveilled a route to the airport and told ISIS-K leadership it was clear of Taliban checkpoints before the Aug. 26, 2021 attack.
Importantly, Sharifullah was not convicted of causing the Abbey Gate deaths. Jurors could not unanimously determine that deaths resulted from his conspiracy, and his defense argued that prosecutors failed to establish his involvement in the bombing beyond statements he made during FBI questioning.
Prosecutors also tied him to more than a dozen other ISIS-K attacks, including the 2016 Canadian Embassy bombing in Kabul and the 2024 Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow. He was captured in Pakistan in March 2025 and extradited to the United States.
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2026-09-16 22:21:57 UTCEvent JSON
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