The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday said the FBI arrested an Afghan man who was allegedly plotting an Election Day attack. Officials said the man—identified as 27-year-old Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma—was inspired by the Islamic State and intended to target large crowds in the attack.

U.S. officials on Tuesday said they had thwarted a plot to carry out a terror attack in the U.S. on Election Day by an Afghan citizen with ties to ISIS. The Justice Department unsealed charges