(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) New York August 16 (QNA) - Expressing its "gravest concern" that parts of Iraq and Syria are now under the control of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al-Nusra Front the United Nations Security Council placed six individuals affiliated with the terrorist groups on its Al-Qaida sanctions list and threatened measures against those who finance recruit or supply weapons to them. As the militants particularly ISIL have over the past two months carried out deadly attacks in Iraq and Syria the Council unanimously adopted a United Kingdom-led resolution noting grave concern at "the negative impact of their violent extremist ideology and actions on the stability of the region the devastating humanitarian impact on the civilian populations and the role of these groups in fomenting sectarian tensions." In its resolution the Security Council deplored and condemned in the strongest terms "the terrorist acts of ISIL and its violent extremist ideology and its continued gross systematic and widespread abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law." The Council observing that that ISIL is "a splinter group" of Al-Qaida recalled that ISIL and Al-Nusra Front are included on the Al-Qaida sanctions list and as such expressed readiness to consider listing individuals groups undertakings and entities providing support to ISIL or to Al-Nusra Front "including those who are financing arming planning or recruiting for [those groups] and all [Al-Qaida associates] through information and communications technologies including the internet and social media or through any other means." (QNA)
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