{"id":22280,"date":"2019-07-18T23:07:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T23:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/07\/18\/suspected-islamic-state-member-brought-to-us-for-prosecution\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:05:07","slug":"suspected-islamic-state-member-brought-to-us-for-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/07\/18\/suspected-islamic-state-member-brought-to-us-for-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Islamic State member brought to US for prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Trump administration said Thursday that it has brought home for prosecution a U.S. national suspected of fighting alongside the Islamic State group in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pentagon said the individual had previously been held by Syrian Democratic Forces as a suspected member of IS. Tens of thousands of foreign fighters from across the world had traveled to Syria to join IS after it declared a global caliphate there in 2014. As militants in the last five years have lost the territory they once controlled, a couple thousand remain detained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The identity of the person was not immediately disclosed, and it wasn’t clear where in the U.S. the individual had been brought. The Justice Department had no comment, and no charges were immediately unsealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\t