In the UK, an ISIS supporter who planned an attack on the Menwith Hill base was sentenced to prison.

Reuters reported that the man was sentenced to 37 years in prison.

The sentencing judge said that 29-year-old Mohammad Farook had been inspired by the Islamic State group and radicalized online.

Last July, Farook was found guilty of preparing terrorist attacks after a trial at Sheffield Crown Court.

Before the trial, he pleaded guilty to possession of explosives and other offenses afterward.

He was arrested in January 2023 at the hospital where he had previously worked as a student nurse with a homemade bomb containing almost 10 kg of explosives that he had obtained from fireworks.

The judge said that Farook initially intended to attack the Royal Air Force base Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, which is also used by US forces. This base provides communications and intelligence support.

“But when he realized that it would be impossible to get closer to the site of the device than the heavily guarded perimeter, he refocused on an easier target,” she said.

Farook was sentenced to 37 years in prison without parole.

This is not the first such precedent in Europe in recent times. At the end of February, a court in the German state of Thuringia sentenced to prison two Afghan nationals who were planning a terrorist attack against the Swedish parliament.

Before that, an 18-year-old Russian citizen was detained in Germany on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack against the Israeli Embassy in Berlin.

In March, US Central Command forces killed the head of ISIS’s global operations and the group’s second most important leader in the world. It was Abu Khadij who was responsible for the logistics and planning of ISIS operations around the world.