(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) A senior leader with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and a fighter with the Al-Nusrah Front (ANF) - both based in Syria - are now Specially-Designated Global Terrorists in the US, the Department of State announced on Monday. Abu Mohammad Al-Adnani, also known as Taha Sobhi Falaha, "is the official spokesman for and a senior leader of ISIL," the statement said. "Al-Adnani is ISIL's main conduit for the dissemination of official messages, including ISIL's declaration of the creation of an Islamic Caliphate." Said Arif, Algerian, "fled house arrest in France in a stolen car and joined the terrorist group Al-Nusrah Front" in October 2013, said the State Department.
Arif is an Algerian army officer deserter wanted by the French government and the Interpol because of his alleged involvement in plotting to bomb several European targets.
He has also "travelled to Afghanistan in the 1990s, where he trained in Al-Qaeda camps with weapons and explosives." Following the terrorist designation, there is a now a "a prohibition against US persons engaging in transactions with [both men] and the freezing of all property and interests of [both men] that are in the United States, or come within the United States or the possession or control of US persons."
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