Six Minnesota men have been arrested in their home state as well as in California for attempting to travel to Syria and join the terror organization Daesh, otherwise known as ISIS. The men were arrested before being able to travel.

The FBI released a statement on Monday April 20 explaining six men of Somali background were arrested. Four were taken into custody in Minneapolis while two were arrested in San Diego. All the men, between the ages of 19 and 21, previously made attempts to join Daesh, but the FBI prevented them.

Identified as Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, 19, Adnan Farah, 19, Hanad Mustafe Musse, 19, Guled Ali Omar, 20, Abdirahman Yasin Daud, 21, and Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 21, the men had been in contact with other Americans who had traveled to Syria as well as other terror connections, who provided money for travel expenses.

The men were charged with conspiracy and attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Abdurahman, A. Farah, Musse, and Omar were arrested in Minneapolis. Daud and M. Farah were taken in California after traveling by car from Minneapolis.

According to the federal complaint, the men had been under FBI surveillance for 10 months since some of the men and their acquaintances made their first attempt to travel to Syria via Turkey.

Using an informant within the group as well as information from social media, the FBI gathered evidence on the men. They planned to travel to Syria by leaving from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport as well as traveling to Mexico through San Diego.

The complaint explained in November Abdurahman, Musse, M. Farah, and a man named Hamza Ahmed attempted to leave the U.S. via New York. FBI agents detained them before they could leave the country and questioned them. Ahmed was later charged separately.

Working with the informant as well as an undercover FBI agent, federal officials managed to gain evidence of the men's plans and arrested them before they managed to travel, tricking two into traveling to San Diego. The men believed the informant could supply falsified passports.

"As described in the criminal complaint, these men worked over the course of the last 10 months to join ISIL," said U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger, according to the press release. 

"Even when their co-conspirators were caught and charged, they continued to seek new and creative ways to leave Minnesota to fight for a terror group. I applaud the hard work and tireless efforts of the FBI Minneapolis Division and their colleagues around the country."

This is the latest incident in which Americans have attempted to join Daesh, or other terror groups.