The US is seeking support for the fight against groups including Islamic State
The US has said it is imposing new sanctions on Islamic State (IS) figures to cut off their sources of financing.
It also named individuals and groups as foreign terrorist fighters, including four British and three French citizens.
The announcement came on the day of a summit hosted by US President Barack Obama about tackling IS, on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Obama said defeating the group in Syria would only be possible if President Bashar al-Assad stepped down.
The US imposed sanctions and penalties on 35 individuals and groups as foreign terrorist fighters – a designation that automatically incurs penalties, reports the BBC.
The individuals targeted come from a wide range of countries – among them Russia, France, and the UK – in what is seen as an effort to highlight the global nature of the threat from Islamic State, says the BBC’s Barbara Plett Usher in New York.
Two British nationals are on the list. One is named as Nasser Muthana, originally from Cardiff, who admitted in an IS video that he had fought in battles in Syria.
The other is Sally Jones, the wife of an IS hacker killed recently in a US drone strike in Syria.
Russia, which is president of the UN Security Council for the month, will chair its own meeting on Wednesday on countering extremism.
On Tuesday, Russia criticised the US counter-terrorism summit at the United Nations, calling it disrespectful.
“This initiative seriously undermines UN efforts in this direction,” Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
Separately, France’s foreign minister said Russia had talked a lot about striking IS, but had not yet taken any concrete action against the group.
“You have to look at who is doing what. The international community is striking Daesh [IS]. France is striking Daesh. The Russians, for the time being, are not at all,” Laurent Fabius told a news conference in New York.
“If one is against the terrorists, it is not abnormal to strike the terrorists,” he added.
On Monday, Obama met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the UNGA to discuss the Syrian war.
The US and Russian leaders have long differed on Syria. The US and France say Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad must go, while Russia has been a staunch ally of the regime in Damascus and has recently stepped up military support.
