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Four Men Charged With Terror Offenses in London After Series of IS-Linked Raids

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Four men have been charged intending to commit acts of terrorism following a series of raids across London allegedly linked to the Islamic State (IS) militant group, Scotland Yard said Friday.

MOSCOW, October 17 (RIA Novosti) – Four men have been charged intending to commit acts of terrorism following a series of raids across London allegedly linked to the Islamic State (IS) militant group, Scotland Yard said Friday.

Tarik Hassane, 21, Suhaib Majeed, 20, Nyall Hamlett, 24, and Momen Motasim, 21, have been charged with terrorism offenses, including swearing an oath to the IS and conducting "hostile reconnaissance" on a police station and Army barracks in London, while one more man, Nathan Cuffy, 25 has been charged with firearms offenses, police said, as cited by BBC.

The IS, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has fought the Syrian government since 2012 but began attracting worldwide attention this summer as it made rapid territorial gains in western and northern Iraq and declared the creation of an Islamic caliphate.

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