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…

PARIS: A Yazidi woman who was held as a sex slave by the Daesh group testified Thursday before a French court, describing in stark detail the horrors she endured under militant…

For the first time, on Thursday, a Yazidi woman testified before a French court about the atrocities her community suffered at the hands of the jihadist group.

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 was found guilty in absentia of genocide, crimes against humanity and complicity in the crimes, committed between 2014 and 2016 when the jihadists occupied swathes of…

Sabri Essid also found guilty of crimes against humanity after harrowing evidence from women enslaved by jihadist

PARIS: A French militant was sentenced to life in jail on Friday over Daesh group atrocities against Iraq’s Yazidi minority, the first case in France to tackle the issue. The Pais…

By sentencing Essid to life imprisonment for 'genocide' on Friday, the Paris court followed the example set by Germany, Sweden and Belgium. The Islamic State’s plan to 'destroy'…