Three Men Planning To Join ISIS Overseas Get Arrested in New York City

Three Men Accused of Planning to Go Overseas to Join ISIS Arrested in New York City (NBC News)

Three men from Brooklyn, New York, were arrested and accused of plotting to wage jihad for ISIS, authorities said Wednesday. One of them had offered to kill President Barack Obama if the militants asked him to, they said.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn identified the men as Abdurasul Juraboev, 24, Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, and Abror Habibov, 30. Juraboev and Habibov are Uzbek citizens, and Saidakhmetov is a citizen of Kazahkstan, the prosecutors said.