Russia Asks UN to list Jaish Al-Islam, Ahrar Al-Sham as Terrorists

Russia has asked the United Nations to blacklist a major terrorist group that is playing a key role in peace talks in Geneva, its ambassador to the UN said.

Mohammed Alloush, a leading figure in Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam), is the chief negotiator for the so-called High Negotiations Committee, the war-torn country's main Saudi-backed opposition group, at UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva.

Russia has also asked that another Takfiri  group, Ahrar al-Sham, be blacklisted.
"The Russian delegation submitted to the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee a request" to add "two organizations: Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham," to a blacklist that includes ISIL and Al-Qaeda, Russia's ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said in a statement Tuesday.

Churkin said that the two groups are "closely linked to terrorist organizations, primarily the ISIL group and Al-Qaeda."

The groups "both give (the ISIL and Al-Qaeda) and receive from them financial, material, technical and military support," he said...
 [ almanar.com.lb - AFP]
27/4/16
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