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A man is reflected in a window draped with a U.S. flag across from the World Trade Center construction site in New York, September 8, 2011. National and city leaders will commemorate on Sunday the ten-year anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001 with a ceremony unveiling a memorial and museum. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES – Tags: SOCIETY ANNIVERSARY)

Somali-American Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Trying to Aid ISIS

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Nov 15, 2016 | World

A Somali-American man in Minnesota was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for conspiring to support the ISIS terror group, reported local media. Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Davis sentenced Hamza Ahmed, 21, at a Minnesota courthouse, according to the...

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Abdulwahid Osman, the lawyer for the family of Dahir Ahmed Adan, speaks during a news conference at St. Cloud City Hall in St. Cloud, Minn., Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP)

Friends Say Minnesota Attacker Was ‘Normal American Kid’

by Mitch Smith and Richard Pérez-Peña | Sep 21, 2016 | World

St. Cloud, Minn. — The man who the police say stabbed 10 people at a mall here on Saturday seemed like a model of assimilation, not a violent jihadist, people who knew him and his family said. The son of Somali refugees, he lived in the United States most of his life,...

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People stand near the entrance on the north side of Crossroads Center mall, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, in St. Cloud, Minn. (Dave Schwarz/St. Cloud Times via AP)

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Minnesota Mall Attack

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 19, 2016 | World

Washington-An ISIS supporter carried out the stabbing attack that wounded at least eight people at a mall in the U.S. state of Minnesota on Saturday, the news agency Amaq, which is affiliated to the militant group, said. “The executor of the stabbing attacks in...