--- title: ISIS: 3 Minnesota Men Face Life in Prison for Trying to Join description: Three Minnesota men accused of plotting to travel to Syria and join ISIS were convicted of conspiracy to murder overseas and other charges canonical: https://time.com/4357545/minnesota-isis-life-prison/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-04T14:32:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:23:31.474Z article:section: U.S. og:title: 3 Minnesota Men Face Life in Prison for Trying to Join ISIS og:description: They were convicted of conspiracy to murder overseas og:url: https://time.com/4357545/minnesota-isis-life-prison/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt833ceb1719a0793d/698896660a4a222b969c9f30/islamic-state-minnesota.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Islamic State-Minnesota og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 3 Minnesota Men Face Life in Prison for Trying to Join ISIS twitter:description: They were convicted of conspiracy to murder overseas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt833ceb1719a0793d/698896660a4a222b969c9f30/islamic-state-minnesota.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 3 Minnesota Men Face Life in Prison for Trying to Join ISIS by [Corky Siemasko/NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Corky Siemasko/NBC News Jun 4, 2016 2:32 PM CUT  Ayan Farah, the mother of defendent Mohamed Farah, 22, hugs her youngest son outside the family's restaurant in the Karmel Mall in Minneapolis, Minn., June 3, 2016. Ayan Farah, the mother of defendent Mohamed Farah, 22, hugs her youngest son outside the family's restaurant in the Karmel Mall in Minneapolis, Minn., June 3, 2016.David Joles—Star Tribune/AP by [Corky Siemasko/NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Corky Siemasko/NBC News Jun 4, 2016 2:32 PM CUT Three Minnesota men accused of plotting to travel to Syria and join ISIS were convicted Friday of conspiracy to murder overseas and other charges. Guled Ali Omar, Abdirahman Yasin Daud, and Mohamed Abdihamid Farah all now face life in prison, the feds said. “The evidence in this case made clear that the defendants made a deeply personal and deliberate decision back in 2014,” United States Attorney Andrew Luger said in a statement. “They wanted to fight for a brutal terrorist organization, kill innocent people and destroy their own families in the process.” Omar, 21, Daud, 22, and Farah, 22, all Minneapolis residents, made “multiple… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/three-minnesota-men-convicted-conspiring-join-isis-n585526?cid=par-time%5F20160604 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4357545/minnesota-isis-life-prison/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4357545/minnesota-isis-life-prison/"},"headline":"3 Minnesota Men Face Life in Prison for Trying to Join ISIS","datePublished":"2016-06-04T14:32:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:23:31.474Z","description":"They were convicted of conspiracy to murder overseas","url":"https://time.com/4357545/minnesota-isis-life-prison/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt833ceb1719a0793d/698896660a4a222b969c9f30/islamic-state-minnesota.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Corky Siemasko/NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt833ceb1719a0793d/698896660a4a222b969c9f30/islamic-state-minnesota.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Islamic State-Minnesota","caption":"Ayan Farah, the mother of defendent Mohamed Farah, 22, hugs her youngest son outside the family's restaurant in the Karmel Mall in Minneapolis, Minn., June 3, 2016.","creditText":"David Joles—Star Tribune/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4357545/minnesota-isis-life-prison/","name":"3 Minnesota Men Face Life in Prison for Trying to Join ISIS"}}]}] ```