Accused Islamic State fighter on trial in U.S., charged with serving as sniper, weapons trainer
He had been brought from the battlefields of Syria to a New York lockup, a U.S. citizen charged with serving as a sniper and weapons trainer for the Islamic State group. And even in jail, Ruslan Maratovich Asainov kept a makeshift version of the militants' black flag right above the desk in his cell, according to trial testimony this week.