Note the different spelling from the OFAC designation:
QI.A.325.14. ABOU MOHAMED AL ADNANI
Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee’s website: 15.08.14
Abou Mohamed al Adnani was listed on 15 August 2014 pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 4 of resolution
2161 (2014) as being associated with Al-Qaida for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating,
preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in
support of” Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QE.J.115.04).
Additional information:
Abou Mohamed al Adnani is the spokesperson for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), listed as
Al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI), and a former spokesperson for the Islamic State of Iraq, an a.k.a of AQI.
Active in Iraq since 2003, he was arrested on 31 May 2005 in Al-Anbar province, Iraq, and was in jail from
2005 to 2010. After his arrival in Syria, he was successively appointed as a deputy of Abu Mohammed al-
Jawlani (QI.A.317.13), leader of the Islamic State of Iraq for the northern province (Aleppo, Hama and
Idlib), then as the security leader and finally as the leader of external operations for ISIL. Close to the
leader of ISIL Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, listed as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai
(QI.A.299.11), al Adnani was appointed emir of ISIL in Syria at the beginning of 2013 after ISIL split with
Jabhat al-Nusrah, an a.k.a. of Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QE.A.137.14). He is one of
the most influential emirs of ISIL.
Related listed individuals and entities:
Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01), listed on 6 October 2001
Al-Qaida in Iraq (QE.J.115.04), listed on 18 October 2004
Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QE.A.137.14), listed on 14 May 2014
Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai (QI.A.299.11), listed on 5 October 2011
Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani (QI.A.317.13), listed on 24 July 2013
Filed under: Al-Qaida Sanctions, Sanctions Lists, Terrorism, UN Updates
