In accordance with paragraph 13 of resolution 1822 (2008) and subsequent related resolutions, the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee makes accessible a narrative summary of reasons for the listing for individuals, groups, undertakings and entities included in the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List.
Ashraf al-Qizani was listed on 29 December 2021 pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 4 of Resolution 2368 (2017) as being associated with ISIL or Al-Qaida for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of”, “recruiting for” and “other acts or activities indicating association with” Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115).
Ashraf al-Qizani, also known as Abu ‘Ubaydah al-Kafi, serves as the leader of Jund al-Khilafah in Tunisia (JAK-T), an ISIS affiliate in Tunisia. Al-Qizani became the emir of JAK-T after the death of former JAK-T emir Yunus Abu-Muslim in 2019. Under al-Qizani’s leadership, JAK-T has carried out numerous attacks in Tunisia. Prior to his appointment as leader of JAK-T, al-Qizani had previously been a member of the Shura Council and served as a sergeant for each of the three companies in JAK-T.
JAK-T emerged as an independent terrorist group in Tunisia in early 2014, but pledged its support to ISIS by December 2014. In November 2019, JAK-T reaffirmed its affiliation with ISIL when it recognized new ISIL leader Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla (QDi.426).
In its six years of operation, JAK-T has been responsible for numerous attacks on civilians and Tunisian security services, including the November 2015 beheading of a Tunisian youth. Recently, JAK-T was responsible for the January 2020 and March 2020 improvised explosive device attacks targeting Tunisian military vehicles. In September 2020, JAK-T claimed responsibility for a knife attack in Tunisia that killed one Tunisian National Guard officer and wounded another