UN moves to rein in Islamic State group

The United Nations Security Council has taken a tough line against
the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, blacklisting six people
including the group's spokesman and threatening sanctions against
its financiers and weapons suppliers.


The 15-member council unanimously adopted on Friday a resolution that
aims to weaken the Islamic State - an al-Qaeda splinter group that has
seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate -
and al-Qaeda's Syrian wing al-Nusra Front.


The Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) has long been blacklisted by the Security Council,
while al-Nusra Front was added earlier this year.



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