{"id":24955,"date":"2016-04-28T02:35:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T02:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/russia-asks-un-to-blacklist-syria-rebel-groups\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T02:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T02:35:38","slug":"russia-asks-un-to-blacklist-syria-rebel-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/russia-asks-un-to-blacklist-syria-rebel-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia asks UN to blacklist Syria rebel groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Negotiator for the Syrian opposition Mohammed Alloush rejects Russian move against Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham.}<\/p>\n<p>Russia has asked the United Nations to blacklist two major Syrian rebel groups, one of which is playing a key role in talks to end the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Vitaly Churkin, the country&#8217;s ambassador to the UN, on Tuesday asked the world body to list Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham, on a blacklist that includes the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Alloush, a leading figure in Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam), is the chief negotiator for the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), the war-torn country&#8217;s main opposition group, at UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva. <\/p>\n<p>Churkin said that the two groups are &#8220;closely linked to terrorist organisations, primarily ISIL and Al-Qaeda.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The groups &#8220;both give (ISIL and Nusra) and receive from them financial, material, technical and military support,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Both Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham have fought alongside the al-Nusra front against Assad forces but all are at war with ISIL (also known as ISIS).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11995 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/60120717e04d4ac09df7be5e22282f5b_18.jpg\" alt=\"An Ahrar al-Sham fighter runs for cover during clashes with Assad loyalists\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Negotiator for the Syrian opposition Mohammed Alloush rejects Russian move against Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham.} Russia has asked the United Nations to blacklist two major Syrian rebel groups, one of which is playing a key role in talks to end the conflict. Vitaly Churkin, the country&#8217;s ambassador to the UN, on Tuesday asked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24955"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24955"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}