LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Monday it would ban the Sunni Islamist insurgent group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), whose stunning offensive in northern Iraq in the past week has spurred fears of all-out sectarian warfare in the Middle East.
Britain's interior ministry, the Home Office, published a draft order proscribing ISIL under the British Terrorism Act. The order will be debated in parliament on Thursday before coming into effect on Friday.
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