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Closing session of OIC meeting, Saudi FM says ISIL 'terrorist' group

(19 Jun 2014) Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal said on Thursday that the outbreak of violence in Iraq was a consequence of the Syrian civil war, which the international community had failed to "put an end to." Al-Faisal held a news conference ending the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah, during which he also dismissed an accusation by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that his country backed Sunni militants, who seized swathes of northern Iraq last week. Al-Faisal said that his country had designated ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) "a terrorist group". "We have put it squarely in the list of terrorist groups, so we don't think that it is part of a revolution reflecting the will of the Iraqi people," he added. Al-Faisal also said that the Iraqi government was to blame for the rise of the group, by dividing the Iraqi people and concentrating authority in the hands of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki . Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...