Ex-San Diego Resident Sentenced to 20 Years for Providing Support to ISIS

Taliban fighters inspect a house after an 8-hour gunbattle erupted between Taliban and ISIS terrorist group fighters, when Taliban forces raided a suspected hideout of ISIS extremists on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 30, 2021. Shir Shah Hamdard/AP Photo

SAN DIEGO—A former San Diego resident who helped fund the travel of North Americans who fought overseas for ISIS was sentenced Oct. 17 to 20 years in federal prison.

Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, 37, pleaded guilty last year to federal charges stemming from his financial assistance of six Americans and Canadians who traveled to Syria to engage in “armed battles to gain control of the territories and civilian populations within Syria” on behalf of ISIS, according to prosecutors.