Finance ministers from the UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a wide-ranging resolution aimed at ramping up sanctions against the Islamic State (ISIS) group and cutting off its revenue flows.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew led the council's first-ever meeting of finance ministers, shoring up a major diplomatic push to end the war in Syria, where ISIS jihadists control a large swathe of territory and have installed their de facto capital.
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