An American from South Carolina has been charged with 20 years in prison for attempting to fight for the ISIS terrorist group.
Outlets report a federal judge on Monday handed down that sentence for 20-year-old Zakaryia Abdin. It was the maximum possible time.
Abdin pleaded guilty in August to attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization.
He was arrested at Charleston's airport in 2017 as he tried to board a plane for Jordan.
Authorities say Abdin told an agent posing as an ISIS recruiter he wanted to torture an American.
At age 16, authorities say Abdin talked about robbing a gun store to get weapons to kill soldiers.
He was arrested, pleaded guilty, and a parole board agreed to his early release after a year.
