DETROIT — An ISIS soldier from Dearborn captured while fighting alongside the terror group in Syria five years ago was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in federal prison.
Prosecutors sought a 35-year sentence, which is more than three times as long as the sentence sought by lawyers for Ibraheem Musaibli, who said he should have been sentenced to the mandatory minimum 10 years in prison. Musaibli, 33, has been jailed since 2018 when he was captured on a Syrian battlefield, making him one of a small group of foreign fighters brought back from overseas to face terrorism charges in the U.S.
A 14-year sentence is slightly longer than average for terrorism cases in the U.S. At least 198 people have been convicted of crimes related to the Islamic State and sentenced to an average of 13.3 years in prison, according to data compiled by George Washington University's Program on Extremism.
