Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice announced that the defendant, Adam Dandach, had agreed to plead guilty and disclosed details of the charges.
"Adam Dandach attempted to travel to Syria to provide material support to ISIL [Daesh], and lied in his passport application in order to do so," Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said in a press release earlier in August.
Court documents revealed that Dandach purchased a ticket to fly from California to Istanbul. After being arrested at the airport as he prepared to leave, the defendant admitted that his ultimate destination was Syria and that he wished to live under the Islamic State and expected to receive weapons training.
The Islamic State, also known as Daesh in Arabic, is outlawed in the United States, Russia and numerous other countries.
