UN updates four ISIL and Al-Qaida sanctions entries

NEW YORK, Aug. 14, 2026 — The UN Security Council committee overseeing ISIL and Al-Qaida sanctions amended four existing entries, updating records connected to terrorism financing, facilitation and militant activity across Afghanistan and parts of Africa.

The changes affect three individuals and one entity. They do not add or remove subjects from the list. The sanctions regime applies an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo under Security Council resolution 2734 (2024).

The individual records concern a former security coordinator for Usama bin Laden; an ISIL facilitator described as providing financial, logistical and recruitment support in East and Southern Africa; and a woman described as mediating ISIL financing channels in Central Africa. The entity entry covers Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan, or ISIL-K, which has claimed numerous attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The records contain aliases, birth data, nationality and identification details, addresses and links to Interpol-UN Security Council special notices, depending on the subject. The extracted release does not preserve the strikethrough and underline used to mark each revision, leaving the precise field-by-field changes unclear.

Revised identifiers can affect sanctions-screening matches and internal list maintenance. The committee also updated the UN consolidated list to reflect the amendments.