Two Somali-Americans Charged For Supporting #ISIS, One Has Fled The Country -DETAILS

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20 year-old Abdi Nur and Abdullahi Yusuf, 18, have been charged with conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State, and they say Nur had actually provided such support. Both men are U.S. citizens of Somali descent.

Yusuf was set to appear in front of a federal magistrate judge, Tuesday. He is believed to have left the United States on a flight to Istanbul, Turkey on May 29, and had not returned.

Officials say the Minneapolis area, hosts a large community of Somali expatriates, that sometimes join al Shabaab, a violent Al Qaeda affiliate based in Somalia.

FBI officials said they had begun tracking a trickle of Somali-Americans from the Minneapolis area to Syria in general and to Islamic State-held areas in particular.

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