UN ADDS 1 NAMES TO ITS ISIL (DA’ESH) AND AL-QAIDA SANCTIONS LIST

On 29^th March, the relevant UN Security Council Sanctions Committee added 1 entry to its sanctions list – KHATIBA IMAM AL-BUKHARI (KIB), for being associated with ISIL or Al-Qaida for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of”, “recruiting for”, “otherwise supporting acts or activities of ” and “other acts or activities indicating association with” Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant.  Information on KIB and the reasons for its listing can be found at –

https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/1267/aq_sanctions_list/summaries/entity/khatiba-imam-al-bukhari-%28kib%29

https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/sc13271.doc.htm

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