Mirsad Kandic

Kosovo-born New Yorker Mirsad Kandic, 40, faces up to life imprisonment for becoming an ISIS fighter, recruiting other ISIS fighters, and providing weapons, equipment, and battlefield intelligence to ISIS, the US Justice Department announced on Wednesday.

Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday extradited Mirsad Kandic - "a very dangerous and highly-ranked Islamic State person" - to the United States.

It emerged on Thursday that Kandic was arrested in Sarajevo on July 4 this year, and had since been kept in extradition prison.

US authorities on Wednesday charged Mirsad Kandic, a legal permanent resident of the US, with providing material support and resources to Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, ISIS.

He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, the US Department of Justice said.

The United States leveled terrorism charges on November 1 against a man extradited from Bosnia who had joined the Islamic State extremist group to allegedly help disseminate propaganda and recruit suicide bombers.

The Bosnian authorities extradited Mirsad Kandic to the US on Tuesday after he had been on Washington's wanted list for three years because of his alleged ties with terrorist organisations.

Kandic was deported on a special plane sent by the US government.