Five years after a suicide bombing at Kabul's Abbey Gate killed 173 people during America's final withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Virginia federal court has sentenced Mohammad Sharifullah, 28, to 20 years in prison for providing material support to Islamic State Khorasan Province. A jury could not unanimously agree on whether his alleged route-scouting directly caused those deaths, leaving the full weight of his culpability legally unresolved even as the human cost remains devastatingly clear. The case stands as a quiet reckoning with the limits of justice — how law must draw precise lines in t
IS member sentenced to 20 years for aiding group behind Kabul airport bombing
The August 26, 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul airport killed 13 US service members and approximately 160 Afghans, with families describing shattered lives and unfathomable grief.