UNSC : ISIL A Hazard To The Entire Middle East

KABUL: (Middle East Press) The United Nations (UN) Security Council has lashed out at the crimes committed by the ISIL Takfiri group inside Iraq and Syria, calling it a hazard to the whole county.

British Ambassador to the UN Mark Lyall Grant, who is the president of the Security Council for August, said in a statement on Tuesday that Council members are intensely involved about the situation of hundreds of people facing ISIL violence in Iraq and Syria.

Grant said “The members of the Security Council note that the huge-scale distasteful carried out by ISIL in Iraq and Syria has a trans-border nature and assert that ISIL poses a threat not only to these countries but to regional peace, security, and stability.”

More than 200,000 civilians most of them from the Yezidi community, have left their homes after the capture of the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar by the ISIL militants on Sunday, said the UN.

Grant further said, “The members of the Security Council further recall that extensive or methodical attacks directed against any civilian population because of their cultural background, religion or belief, may constitute a crime against humanity, for which those responsible must be held answerable.”

Moreover by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Monday, “nearly 35-50,000 people transferred in nine locations” are currently “surrounded” by ISIL components.

the UN said on August 3, a “humanitarian tragedy” was unfolding in Sinjir. The town had protected thousands of people displaced by the ISIL violence, which return to the state nearly two months ago.