German woman loses appeal of 14-year sentence for letting enslaved Yazidi girl die in Iraq
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BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court said Wednesday it had rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old...
US court summons Iraqi Kurdistan PM Masrour Barzani over multiple charges
The defendants face charges such as "atrocities, violence, murder, genocide, abduction, torture, collaboration with terrorists and...
Pakistan retaliates with strikes inside Iran
Thursday's strikes allegedly targeted militant hideouts. Pakistan launches retaliatory airstrikes in Iran A Pakistani official told ABC...
Turkey prevents UN visit to hide its use of mercenaries in armed conflicts
Turkey has refused to permit the visit of the UN watchdog group on the use of mercenaries since November 2015, when the international...
What does ISIS’s revival mean for the South Caucasus?
The socio-economic crisis was one of the causes of the disintegration of centralized governments in Syria and Iraq in 2011 and the...
Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality’, says they must use ‘sexual deviance’
(Reuters) -Iraq's official media regulator on Tuesday ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use...
UK acknowledges acts of genocide committed by Daesh against Yazidis
The UK government has today formally acknowledged that acts of genocide were committed against the Yazidi people by Daesh in 2014....
Iraq bill calling for homosexuality ban submitted to parliament
A proposed bill to ban homosexuality in Iraq has been submitted to its parliament. The deputy head of the committee on legal affairs at...
German court delivers third genocide verdict against ISIS member
for the enslavement and abuse of Yazidi woman in Syria and Iraq Press statement by victim’s counsel Amal Clooney, Sonka Mehner and...
Iraq: Christian NGOs accused of trying to convert Yazidis
Yazidi community leaders have expressed outrage at attempts by western proselytisers to recruit their people to Christianity through aid...
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