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American teen arrested for trying to flee US to join ISIS

An American teenager has been arrested by the FBI after he allegedly tried to travel to Turkey to join the Islamic State terror group, officials said.Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, a US citizen, was arrested at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on October 4 before he attempted to fly to Vienna, Austria, on his way to Turkey. He was charged on Monday in a criminal complaint filed in US district court with one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He appeared in US district court in Chicago and remains in federal custody pending a detention hearing on Thursday.

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