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UK acknowledges Islamic State commits "acts of genocide" against Yazidis
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Lord Ahmad, said, "The Yazidi population suffered immensely at the hands of Daesh 9 years ago and the repercussions are still felt to this day. Justice and accountability are key for those whose lives have been devastated."
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German court sentences IS bride to 10 years in prison over war crime
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Munich [Germany], October 26 (ANI): A German woman who had joined the Islamic State group in 2013, was sentenced to ten years in prison over a war crime by a Munich court on Monday.
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Sexual assault during conflicts must be prosecuted as war crime, says expe
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 1 (ANI): On the night of March 25, 1971, the Pakistani army started the now infamous 'Operation Searchlight' in which they killed students, intellectuals, and civilians in Bangladesh. Thousands of Bengali women were raped by the Pakistani army. The idea was to brutally
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3,000 Islamic State terrorists surrender to US-backed forces in Syria
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Damascus [Syria], Mar 13 (ANI): Over three thousand terrorists belonging to the UN-designated terror organisation Islamic State have surrendered to US-backed Kurdish forces.
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US warns Syria against usage of chemical weapons
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Jan 6 (ANI): The United States has strongly warned Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime against the use of chemical weapons in the region.
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US reaffirms support for Iraqi persecuted minorities
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 17 (ANI): United States Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan met Iraqi religious leaders to reaffirm the US' commitment to assisting religious minorities, including Yazidis and Christians, who have been persecuted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (
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Almost 10,000 Yazidis 'killed or kidnapped in ISIS genocide', sa
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [U.S.A.], May 10 (ANI): As many as 9,900 members of Yazidi community have been "killed or kidnapped in ISIS genocide," yet the true scale of the genocide during the brutal sweep by the ISIS through Iraq may never be known as thousands remain in captivity, a study says.
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IS forces captives to convert to Islam: Yazidi activist
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 6 (ANI): Lamia Haji Bashar, Yazidi woman activist, who escaped from the Islamic State in Iraq narrating her suffering said the extremists forced the captives to convert to Islam and called other religions unacceptable.
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