Trump administration sanctions three senior ISIS recruiters

Published August 24, 2018 5:38pm ET



The Treasury Department on Friday added three senior recruiters from the Islamic State to its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons after they appeared in a beheading video that was used to radicalize individuals in Southeast Asia.

“We are sanctioning these terrorists along with our UN and international partners as part of a coordinated effort to counter ISIS’s global networks that enable the group to recruit foreign fighters to conduct international terrorist attacks,” the Trump administration said in a statement.

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