A suburban Minneapolis college student left his family while on vacation in Morocco two years ago and joined the Islamic State group in Syria, according to newly unsealed court files. The case is the first disclosure of someone from Minnesota trying to join the Islamic State since nine Minnesota men were sentenced in federal court last year for plotting unsuccessfully to join the terrorist group. The case is among at least six open investigations of alleged IS support in Minnesota from 2015 to as recently as late last year, the Star Tribune reported. He was to spend two months with his family visiting relatives in Morocco in 2015. Al-Madioum is the eighth Minnesotan suspected of leaving his family behind to join IS.

Source: ABC News September 10, 2017 18:11 UTC