Three people have been charged with plotting attacks in New York City last year for the militant Islamic State (IS) group. <br/><br/>According to the office of Acting US Attorney Joon Kim in Manhattan, the planned attacks, which were thwarted by law enforcement, incl'uded detonating explosives in Manhattan's Times Square and in the city's subway in the summer of 2016. <br/><br/>The US Attorney said the would-be attackers were identified as 19-year-old Canadian Abdu'lrahman El Bahnasawy, 19-year-old Talha Haroon, a US citizen living in Pakistan, and Russel Salic, 37, of the Philippines. The three face charges of multiple terrorism offences, including conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and support of a terrorist organisation.