Ayman Al-Zawahari

EGY

Leader of Al-Qaida. Former operational and military leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, was a close associate of Usama Bin Laden (deceased). Believed to have been in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border area before going to Afghanistan in 2014. Reportedly killed in drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan on 31 July 2022..

1951-06-19

Giza, EGY

Male

1084010 (passport-National passport); 19820215 (other-Other identification number)

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202500611

Military

Former operational and military leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, now a close associate of Usama Bin Laden

EU

2005/611 (OJ L202500611)

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A32015R1390

2025-03-21

EU

Restrictive measures with respect to ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida

UN, EU-horizontal

Terrorism

Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission, Prohibition to satisfy claims

- All assets of the listed persons and entities should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them. - It is prohibited to grant claims to the persons or entities listed in Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1686. - Member States shall enforce travel restrictions on persons listed in the Annex of Council Decision (CFSP) 2016/1693 and on persons designated by the UN Security Council pursuant to UN Security Council Resolutions 1267 (1999), 1333 (2000) and 2253 (2015) or by the UN Security Council Al-Qaida, Da'esh and ISIL Sanctions Committee (see the list of persons subject to the asset freeze).

The UN Security Council has introduced two separate restrictive measures regimes to combat terrorism. On 15 October 1999, restrictive measures were introduced in relation to the Taliban through UN Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999). On 16 January 2002, the measures were extended to cover the Al-Qaida organization and other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them (see Resolution 1390 (2002)). In 2011, the UN Security Council decided to split the restrictive measures in relation to the Taliban and those in relation to Al-Qaida into separate regimes. Measures in relation to Al-Qaida were gathered in Resolution 1989 (2011). The measures in relation to the Taliban are described under the Afghanistan restrictive measures regime on the EU Sanctions Map. On 17 December 2015, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2253 (2015) expanding the scope of the measures to individuals, groups, undertakings or entities associated with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (‘ISIL (Da'esh)’), responsible for ongoing and multiple criminal terrorist acts aimed at causing the deaths of innocent civilians and other victims, destruction of property and greatly undermining stability. As of 20 September 2016, the Council of the EU can apply restrictive measures autonomously to persons and entities associated with ISIL/Da'esh and Al-Qaida. Before that, the restrictive measures could be applied only to those listed by the UN Security Council.