Overview

• On July 31, 2025, a Stockholm court handed Osama Krayem a life sentence for his involvement in the Islamic State’s 2014 cage execution of a Jordanian pilot.
• Judge Anna Liljenberg Gullesjö ruled that Krayem acted as an accomplice and bore decisive responsibility for the pilot’s death.
• The Jordanian pilot’s F-16 crashed near Raqqa in December 2014 before IS militants captured and burned him alive in a propaganda video.
• Krayem joined the Islamic State in 2014 and had been previously convicted in France for planning the 2015 Paris attacks and in Belgium for the 2016 Brussels bombings.
• This ruling makes Krayem one of the few IS fighters to receive successive sentences in Sweden, France and Belgium, illustrating increased cooperation among European courts in terrorism cases.