UN Security Council Adopts Resolution Regarding Foreign Terrorist Fighters (September 24, 2014) [1]
On September 24, 2014, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2178 [3] regarding foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria. Acting under Chapter VII and “[n]oting the continued threat to international peace and security posed by terrorism,” the Security Council, “[c]ondemns the violent extremism, which can be conducive to terrorism, sectarian violence, and the commission of terrorist acts by foreign terrorist fighters, and demands that all foreign terrorist fighters disarm and cease all terrorist acts and participation in armed conflict.” In the Resolution, the Security Council also “[u]rges Member States, in accordance with domestic and international law, to intensify and accelerate the exchange of operational information regarding actions or movements of terrorists or terrorist networks, including foreign terrorist fighters.”