The prosecutor at the trial over IS group crimes against the Middle Eastern Yazidi community, the first of its kind in France, requested life imprisonment for French jihadist Sabri Essid, who stands accused of buying and raping Yazidi sex slaves.

The Paris criminal court heard the harrowing reality of the enslavement of a people in the name of religion. Rarely has a terrorism trial gone so far in exposing the atrocities…

On Wednesday, the French jihadist's ex-wife told the court about the man he had been before he turned to jihad. In France, she was the first woman to suffer his violence and…