United Nations, Nov 20 (IANS/TASS) The United Nations Security Council has put Libya's Ansar al-Sharia group in the list of terrorist organisations and imposed sanctions against it for its subversive activities and relations with Al-Qaeda.
A source at the UN headquarters told TASS Wednesday that the decision has been taken at the request of France, the US and Britain.
Notably, the UN blacklisted both wings of the group - Ansar al-Sharia Benghazi and Ansar al-Sharia Derna. The sanctions included a ban on trips, freezing assets and a ban on arms supplies to the group and individuals suspected of having links with it.
The ultra radical Salafi group Ansar al-Sharia has already come under sanctions from the US as being behind an attack on the US mission in Benghazi in September 2012.
Some reports say militants involved in the attack on an oil and gas facility in Algeria in 2013 were trained at the group's camps. The group also trained terrorists fighting in Iraq, Syria and Mali.
--IANS/TASS
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