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Mohamad Khweis, 27, of Alexandria, Va., is interrogated by Kurdish peshmerga forces in northern Iraq in March 2016.
(U.S. District Court, Alexandria, Va. via Associated Press)
A former public transit driver in Virginia who later joined the Islamic State group in Syria faces up to 35 years in prison when he is sentenced Friday.
Mohamad Khweis, 27, of Alexandria, Va., became the only U.S. citizen convicted in a U.S. jury trial of joining ISIS overseas. He was convicted on terrorism charges earler this year in a federal court in Virginia.
Khweis traveled to Islamic State-controlled territory in Iraq and Syria in December 2015, even obtaining an official membership card. But he found life there distasteful and escaped after a few months.
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