Texas man pleads guilty to trying to provide ISIS support

A man in Texas has pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.

Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya, 20, attempted to join ISIS in 2017, communicating online about the plans. He also told individuals he thought were part of the terror organization that he wanted to travel to Syria or Afghanistan to fight alongside the group. Damlarkaya said that if he couldn’t make it to the Middle East to fight, he would conduct an attack in the U.S. against non-Muslims, noting that it was his “dream” to die as a martyr.