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By Gabrielle Desarzens – World Watch Monitor – The UN must urgently put in place measures to hold to account jihadists who have committed atrocities against minorities in Iraq and [...]

By Nick Cumming-Bruce – The New York Times – Islamic State forces have committed genocide and other war crimes in a continuing effort to exterminate the Yazidi religious minority in [...]

By Olivia Ward, Toronto Star – Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion called the motion ‘crass politics’ as it was defeated 166-139. When Daesh attacked their homeland in Iraq’s Sinjar [...]

BBC News – The US says the Islamic State (IS) group has committed genocide against Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims. US Secretary of State John Kerry said IS was “genocidal by [...]

By John Bacon- USA Today – The Islamic State is committing genocide against Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Iraq, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday in an [...]

By Terence P. Jeffrey – CNSNews – The U.S. House of Representatives voted 393 to 0 tonight in favor of a resolution declaring that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is [...]

By Lord David Alton of Liverpool – Catholic Herald – Just before Christmas 75 parliamentarians, from both Houses and all parties – including the former head of our Armed Forces, the [...]