Per @TheJusticeDept, prosecutors presented evidence from 36 witnesses & from 6 continents
Kandic "worked directly with #ISIS emirs & battlefield commanders... provided battlefield intelligence and maps" per DOJ
Kandic also ""sent thousands of radicalized #ISIS volunteer fighters from Western countries into ISIS-controlled territories in #Syria & elsewhere in the Middle East" per @TheJusticeDept
-1 count of conspiracy to provide material support
- 5 substantive counts of providing material support in the forms of personnel, services, weapons, property, & equipment, false documentation/identification
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Kirby adds, "US troops will not be fighting in this war in #Ukraine" and that @StateDept has not changed its position regarding not having military guards
Happening now: @USArmy Gen Christopher Cavoli - nominated to serve as commander of @US_EUCOM and as Supreme Allied Commander-#Europe - testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee
"In #Europe, the core security challenge is #Russia" per Gen Cavoli
"Russia's unprovoked invasion of #Ukraine ushers in a new era in European security...It will be up to us all to reestablish an enduring stability"
"But #Russia is not our only challenge. #China's growing influence is also of huge concern" per Gen Cavoli "As are terrorism, migration, #cybersecurity, & #climatechange"
NEW: An estimated 20,000 foreigners expressed interest in becoming #foreignfighters in #Ukraine -including some extremists" since #Russia invaded but evidence suggests "only a fraction...actually did so" per a new report by @FightExtremism & @KacperRekawek
#Ukraine#foreignfighter number "ranges from merely several hundreds to a few thousand" per @FightExtremism report "This is dwarfed by tens of thousands of Ukrainian volunteers who joined units in Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Force (TDF)"
Per @FightExtremism report, at least 2 violence-oriented foreign extremists who traveled to #Ukraine "have been killed in the latest round of hostilities"
"Both were on the pro-#Russia side, including one who was a left-wing extremist"