IS member sentenced to 20 years for aiding group behind Kabul airport bombing

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