6 Men from Minnesota Arrested for Attempt to Join Islamic State by Bella Dekhtyar

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-syria-terrorism-investigation-20150419-story.html

  Six men in Minneapolis, Minnesota, all of Somali descent, have been detained by the FBI and charged for forming alliances with the Islamic State. These men have been attempting to go to Syria through San Diego for a long period of time, but were eventually caught before their flight out. Authorities state that few Minnesotan residents have travelled to Syria to fight with militants in the past year. Besides ISIS, more than 20 other Somali men have been joining the terrorist group, al-Shabab, since 2007.

  This article helped me realize that the U.S. isn't as safe from ISIS as I assumed to believe because there are many citizens who are actively joining terrorist groups for years. I don't want to assume that every man of Somali descent is associated with ISIS or any other terrorist group, but because of the recent numbers of Somali descents joining ISIS, I'd want the U.S. government to keep a close eye on them, or anyone else, in case of any other attempts to join the Islamic state.