Brother of Paris attacker sentenced to 9 years in jail

[WorldNews]

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The brother of one of the Islamist attackers who killed 130 people in Paris was sentenced to nine years' jail on Wednesday for traveling to Syria to train as a militant fighter. Karim Mohammed-Aggad was one of a group tried over a trip to Syria in December 2013. Karim and six others, aged 24 to 27, were tried on charges of taking part in an Islamist recruitment network and receiving training from the Islamic State group, whose strongholds in Iraq and Syria are being bombed by French fighter jets.

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