WORLD_ IRAQ_ US planes pound ISIS-held dam area in Iraq

US planes pound ISIS-held dam area in Iraq

August 17, 2014
The Gulf Today

BAGHDAD: American airstrikes pounded the area around Iraq’s largest dam on Saturday in an effort to drive out militants who captured it earlier this month, killing up to 15 terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Residents living near the Mosul Dam told The Associated Press that the area was being targeted in airstrikes.

There were suggestions that the attack near the Mosul Dam was the beginning of a US military operation to retake it from from the self-declared jihadists, who captured it earlier this month and thereby gained control over the water and electricity supply in the north of the country.

The decision to launch airstrikes marked the first direct US military intervention in Iraq since the last troops withdrew in 2011, and reflected growing international concern about the extremist group, which has carved out a self-styled Islamic state in large parts of Iraq and neighbouring Syria.

The UN Security Council, meanwhile, imposed sanctions on Friday on six men for recruiting or financing foreign fighters and threatened additional sanctions against those supporting terrorist groups.

The UN’s most powerful body, in a resolution adopted unanimously, also demanded that the ISIS and all Al Qaeda-linked groups end violence and disarm and disband immediately.

British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said the British-drafted resolution sends a clear message that the international community condemns the ISIS “brutal and mindless terrorist acts, rejects its violent extremist ideology and is united in its resolve to oppose and confront it.”

The six men now subject to a global travel ban and asset freeze include four who either recruited or helped finance Al Nusra — Abdelrahman Mouhamad Zafir al Dabidi al Jahani, Hajjaj Bin Fahd Al Ajmi, Said Arif and Abdul Mohsen Abdallah Ibrahim al Charekh.

Another man, Hamid Hamad Hamid Al Ali, was blacklisted for helping finance both al-Nusra and the Islamic State group. Abou Mohamed al Adnani was blacklisted for financing and perpetrating acts supporting the ISIS.

Al Jahani and Al Ajmi are already subject to US sanctions. According to the US Treasury Department, Jahani was participating in fighting in Syria and working with counterparts in Pakistan to acquire heavy weapons and trainers to support Al Qaeda efforts. The department alleges that Ajmi agreed to provide financial support to Nusra in exchange for installing Kuwaitis in the group’s leadership positions.

Agencies

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