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 northern Syria and Iraq.

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…