DUBAI: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait agreed to comply with a United Nations resolution aimed at stopping financing for Islamist militant groups in Syria and Iraq after four of their nationals were named among a group blacklisted by the international body.
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday intended to weaken the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) - an Al-Qaeda splinter group that has seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate - and Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing, the Nusra Front.
Western officials believe that wealthy Gulf Arabs, in countries that include Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, have been a main source of funding for Sunni Islamist militants fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.