Brooklyn Resident Sentenced for Funding ISIS Foreign Fighter: DOJ Report

People look at a destroyed houses near the village of Barisha after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of ISIS, in Idlib province, Syria, on Oct. 27, 2019. Ghaith Alsayed/AP Photo

A citizen of Uzbekistan residing in Brooklyn was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday for conspiring and providing material support to the terrorist organization ISIS.

Dilkhayot Kasimov, 34, was convicted following a one-week trial in September 2019 after assisting Abdurasul Juraboev and Akhror Saidakhmetov, both of whom planned to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS back in 2015. Kasimov collected cash for the trip from co-conspirators, Abror Habibov and others, adding his contribution, and transferred $1,600 to Saidakhmetov at the John F. Kennedy International Airport.