US slaps sanctions against ISIL and AQAP terrorist networks

The US today took action to disrupt the fund-raising and support networks of Islamic State, al-Nusrah Front in Syria and Iraq and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) by imposing sanctions on six individuals related to the terror groups.
The US Department of Treasury announced to designated Abdallah Hadi 'Abd al-Rahman Fayhan Sharban al-'Anizi, Abd al-Muhsin Zabin Mutib Naif al-Mutayri, Nayif Salih Salim al-Qaysi, Ghalib al-Zaydi, Mostafa Mahamed, and Salmi Salama Salim Sulayman 'Ammar as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
As a result of today's actions, any property or interest in property of the individuals designated by Treasury within US jurisdiction is frozen.

Additionally, transactions by US persons involving the designated individuals are generally prohibited, an official release said.
"Treasury remains committed to taking aggressive action against IS and al-Qaida's financiers and facilitators," said Adam J Szubin, Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
"Today's action targets critical al-Qaida, al-Nusrah Front, AQAP, and IS financiers and facilitators responsible for moving money, weapons, and people on behalf of these terrorist organizations," he said.

Kuwait-based Abdullah Hadi 'Abd al-Rahman Fayhan Sharban al-'Anizi (al-'Anizi) has been slapped with sanctions for providing financial, material, or technological support to al-Qaida in Afghanistan and al-Nusrah Front in Syria between late 2013 and late 2015.

Also based in Kuwait, the Treasury designated Abd al- Muhsin Zabin Mutib Naif al-Mutayri as global terrorist for providing financial, material, or technological support for, and financial or other services to or in support of, al-Nusrah Front.
As of 2015, al-Mutayri was an al-Nusrah Front supporter in Kuwait who was collecting money for the group from other Gulf-based facilitators.
Nayif Salih Salim al-Qaysi, based in Yemen, has been designated for acting on behalf of AQAP and for providing financial and material support to AQAP.
He was a senior AQAP official and a financial supporter of AQAP.
He delivered aid to AQAP and used his position as an al-Bayda Governorate, Yemen, political leader to facilitate the expansion and settlement of AQAP in the governorate.