Chemical weapons watchdog blames Islamic State for 2015 Syria attack
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Reuters The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Thursday identified Islamic State militants in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as the likely perpetrator of a chemical weapons attack in Marea, Syria, on 1st September, 2015. There were “reasonable grounds to believe that on 1 September 2015, during sustained attacks aimed at capturing […]
UN: Iraq Christians were victims of Islamic State war crimes
United NationsAP Evidence collected in Iraq strengthens preliminary findings that Islamic State extremists committed crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Christian community after it seized about a third of the country in 2014, a UN investigative team said in a report circulated Thursday. The report to the UN Security Council said crimes included […]
UN experts: Islamic State committed genocide against Yazidis
United NationsAP The head of a UN team investigating atrocities in Iraq announced Monday it has found “clear and compelling evidence” that Islamic State extremists committed genocide against the Yazidi minority in 2014 and said the militant group successfully developed chemical weapons and used mustard gas. Karem Khan told the Security Council the team also […]
IRAQ: REBUILDING WITH AMERICAN FUNDS, MINORITY RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES STILL AWAIT SECURITY
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports…