The airstrikes followed an even larger attack in December to avenge the killing of three Americans last year. A view of the Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood amid fighting in Aleppo, Syria, on Jan. 10.Credit ...Adri Salido/Getty Images The United States carried out major airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Saturday, following up on even larger retaliatory attacks last month to avenge the deaths of two U.S. Army soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter killed in a terr

Written by Paola Gaeta Photo credit: https://www.ejiltalk.org/intent-to-destroy-reflections-on-the-swedish-yazidi-genocide-case/ Reading the Swedish judgments in the Lina Ishaq case is an unsettling experience. The description of the atrocities inflicted on the Yazidi community by ISIS is presented with a level of factual precision that leaves little space for abstraction. The Stockholm District Court ’s account of the attacks on Sinjar and the subsequent treatment of Yazidi