Two men held after police searches of properties in West Yorkshire have been charged under the Terrorism Act.
Rizwan Ditta, 29, and Mohammad Dilal, 25, both from Halifax, will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on Tuesday.
The men were arrested following an inquiry led by the Metropolitan Police.
Mr Ditta faces 13 charges connected to possessing computer files and Mr Dilal is accused of two offences in relation to a disc, a computer file and CDs.
Anti-terrorism officers from Metropolitan and West Yorkshire Police forces arrested the men in the Pellon area of Halifax on 23 January.
'Sound of Jihad'
Mr Ditta, of Royd Terrace, was charged under section 57(1) and 58(1) of the act with having items for a purpose connected with terrorism or that are likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.
He is alleged to have possessed several computer files with titles such as Attack Against American Troops, Sound of Jihad, and Hamas Bomb.
Mr Dilal, of Thrum Hall Close, was charged under 58(1)(b) of the act with having items likely to be useful to a person committing an act of terrorism.
It is alleged that "without reasonable excuse" Dilal had a record containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing an act of terrorism, which was five copies of a CD entitled The Manhattan Raid and a computer file of the same title.
He is also accused of having possessed a disc containing a clip entitled Al-Qaeda
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