UN Security Council Lifts Sanctions on Iraq National
The United Nations Security Council removed Mazen Salah Mohammed from its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List, lifting an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo, according to a May 21 U.N. press release. The sanctions were lifted after the…
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Security Council Committee received a “delisting request” for Mohammed, an Iraqi national, by the “designating State," the press release said. The U.N. lists Mohammed as a member of Ansar Al-Islam, a Sunni Muslim militant group based in Iraq.