MIAMI — Two men were charged in federal court in Miami on Tuesday, Aug. 15, with providing financing and recruits to al-Qaeda and other foreign terrorist organizations fighting in Syria and Somalia.

Gufran Ahmed Kauser Mohammed, a 30-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen born in India, and Mohamed Hussein Said, a 25-year-old Kenyan, were arraigned on a 15-count indictment, charging them with links to three U.S.-designated terrorist organizations that have operated in Iraq, Syria and Somalia.

Both men, who were arrested in Saudi Arabia and turned over to U.S. custody last week, pleaded not guilty and were ordered held without bond pending trial.

The men are accused of having used Western Union to wire a total of $96,000 to an al-Qaeda affiliate, al-Nusra Front, which is fighting to topple the regime in Syria, and al-Shabaab, a militant group fighting to impose its strict interpretation of Islamic law on Somalia. The case is being prosecuted in Miami because some of the Western Union wire transfers were sent to a Florida-based undercover agent for the FBI.