NEW: An American citizen captured in Syria has been charged by federal prosecutors in Dallas, Texas, for allegedly joining the terrorist group ISIS.
An American citizen captured in Syria has been charged by federal prosecutors in Dallas, Texas, for allegedly joining the terrorist group ISIS.
Kuzu told agents that he also traveled to Mosul, Iraq, and received weapons and fighting training from ISIS instructors, but then crossed back into Syria where he was provided an AK-47 and was enlisted by the group to help repair communications equipment. In a State Department briefing Thursday, Nathan Sales, the State Department's Ambassador at Large for counter terrorism said Americans recently repatriated to the U.S. who face charges for joining ISIS can expect to face"severe penalties."
Just last month, Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Kazakhstan, was charged with joining ISIS as a sniper and helping to train fighters in the group, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in Brooklyn federal court.
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