By Efe Ozkan
ISTANBUL (AA) - The US Treasury announced Thursday that it had added Kata'ib Al-Imam Ali, an Iran-backed group in neighboring Iraq, onto its sanctions list.
The department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List was updated to include the Shia group
The sanctions block access to Kata'ib Al-Imam Ali's assets and prohibit US nationals from dealing with them.