A Sydney court rejected appeals by five members of the Pendennis terrorist cell against their convictions and sentences. Another member of the cell, Khaled Sharrouf, left for Syria last year to join the Islamic State. Ahmad Saiyer Naizmand, an Afghan who become an Australian citizen in 2007, pled guilty on Dec. 8 to stealing a passport; he was arrested in August while trying to travel to Syria to fight alongside Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar for the Islamic State.
