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Thursday, September 25, 2014

UN aims to stop jihadist recruits..[ 4703 ]


Islamic State crisis: UN aims to stop jihadist recruits

25 September 2014 Last updated at 02:03 GMT









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The UN Security Council has adopted a binding resolution compelling states to prevent their nationals joining jihadists in Iraq and Syria.
US President Barack Obama chaired the session and said nations must prevent the recruitment and financing of foreign fighters.
US and Arab jets bombed Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria for a second day, including oil facilities, the US says.
Mr Obama urged global efforts to dismantle the IS "network of death".
The US-drafted resolution was adopted unanimously.
The US launched air raids against IS militants in Iraq last month and overnight from Monday to Tuesday expanded the strikes into Syria, with the participation of Gulf Arab allies.
IS now controls several oilfields in Syria and Iraq, and sales of smuggled crude oil have helped finance its offensive in both countries.
Call to action UK Prime Minister David Cameron said nations must deal with all forms of extremism, including banning "preachers of hate" and fighting "poisonous ideology".
 
A new IS video purportedly shows new recruits
 
IS fighters have seized large areas in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate
 
Oilfields in northern Syria used to be a major source of income for the government
He told the UN council session that the Iraq and Syria conflicts were attracting young recruits from prosperous countries.
Mr Obama said "the words spoken here today must be matched and translated into action... within nations and between them, not just in the days ahead but for years to come".
In his earlier speech to the UN General Assembly he condemned IS, saying "there can be no reasoning - no negotiation - with this brand of evil".
More than 40 countries had offered to join the anti-IS coalition, he said.
IS aims to set up a hardline caliphate. The well-armed Sunni Muslim militants have seized a huge swathe of Syria and Iraq, forcing whole communities to flee in terror. They have beheaded Western hostages and have persecuted Christians, Yazidis and Shia Muslims, whom they treat as heretics.
Multiple air strikes In the past 24 hours US warplanes hit IS vehicles and arms dumps near Abu Kamal on the Syria-Iraq border and Deir al-Zour in the east of Syria. In Iraq there were strikes west of Baghdad and southeast of Irbil, near Kurdish territory, the US military said.
Twelve of the strikes had been against small-scale oil refineries, which produce between 300-500 barrels of refined petroleum a day and generate as much as $2m a day in revenue, the military added.
It said an initial assessment showed that the strikes had been successful.
There were also air strikes on IS near the border with Turkey.



Analysis - Nick Bryant, BBC News, New York
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