From Global News.

Two men accused of igniting homemade bombs at a chaotic anti-Islam protest outside the New York City mayor’s mansion on Saturday were charged on Monday with federal terrorism-related crimes, according to court records. The pair told police that they were inspired by the Islamic State, the Islamist militant group.

Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, are accused of travelling from Pennsylvania with dangerous improvised explosive devices to Manhattan on Saturday, where a small group of far-right activists had planned the anti-Muslim rally outside Gracie Mansion against Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim mayor.

A third man, Ian McGinnis, was arrested and appeared in a New York state court on Sunday, accused of squirting pepper spray or a similar chemical irritant into the faces of two of the counter-protesters opposing the anti-Islam rally, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office and police. McGinnis faces six charges, including third-degree assault.

Police in New York have been on alert since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, but did not say there was a sign of Saturday’s attack being linked to the war.

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