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An American has been charged with aiding and attempting to help a terrorist organization after he joined the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) group. This was announced by prosecutors, Lenta.ru reports.

Ruslan Maratovich Asainov is a naturalized American born in Kazakhstan and lived in the Brooklyn area of New York. According to prosecutors, he went to Istanbul in 2013 and then left Turkey for Syria. There he joined IS, where he became a sniper, and then grew up to be an "emir" instructor in the handling of weapons. The man also tried to persuade another man to come from the U.S. to fight on the side of the group.

It is noted that Asainov was taken to the United States from the prison of the SDF, an American-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab groups. It is not specified how old the man was, or how long ago he had obtained American citizenship.

"The defendant turned his back on the country that accepted him and joined ISIS," the U.S. federal prosecutor said. He indicated that the U.S. side would continue to work and hold accountable those who sided with the Islamic State.

In June, a Syrian refugee was reported accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a church in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The man was planning an attack on a church in the name of IS.