The Council of the European Union adopted Regulation (EU) 2025/2397 to amend its ISIL (Da’esh) and al-Qaida sanctions framework, adding a newly designated entity and adjusting how asset-freeze rules apply across overlapping sanctions regimes.

The amendment adds the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) to the EU’s ISIL/al-Qaida sanctions list. Since the ADF is already sanctioned under the EU’s Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) restrictive-measures regime, the Council temporarily suspended certain ISIL/al-Qaida sanctions as they apply to the ADF to ensure uniform implementation and avoid duplicative asset-freeze measures.

The regulation clarifies that asset-freeze provisions under the ISIL/al-Qaida regime will remain suspended for the ADF as long as corresponding DRC sanctions continue to apply.

View the relevant Regulation here