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Yazidi Justice Committee has been working privately for more than two years to show states failed to protect minority groupA group of high-level British lawyers have been working privately on compiling evidence to show that one or more countries failed in their international obligations to prevent genocide against the Yazidis in northern Iraq.The lawyers, who formally announced their collaboration as the Yazidi Justice Committee...

Grenade blast wounds two people, reports say, but number of casualties could riseGunmen have stormed a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital, throwing at least one grenade and wounding two people, the interior ministry and witnesses said.The number of bombings has dropped across the country since the Taliban seized power in August, but there have been several fatal attacks in recent months. Continue reading...

Interior ministry believes Iswap was behind attack in Ondo state on Sunday that killed 40 peopleNigerian security officials suspect extremists from Islamic State’s affiliate in west Africa were behind an attack on a Catholic church last weekend that killed dozens.Forty people are now thought to have died after gunmen stormed St Francis Catholic church in Owo, Ondo State, on Sunday, and 61 survivors are...

The South African government sent Anton Hammerl’s passport to his widow in 2016 but has refused to say how it came to have itThe widow of a British-based photographer who was murdered by Col Gaddafi’s forces in Libya in 2011 has accused South Africa of withholding crucial information about her husband’s death that could help in efforts to locate his body.Anton Hammerl was killed...

Saber Lahmar has been charged with encouraging jihadists to fight for Islamic State in Iraq and SyriaAn Algerian preacher who spent eight years in the US-run Guantánamo Bay prison has gone on trial in France for allegedly encouraging several young men to join the Islamic State group.Saber Lahmar, a 52-year-old Algerian released by the US in 2008 and taken in afterwards by France, has...

Attack claimed by Islamic State triggered fierce gun battle in Kogi state on SaturdayThree policemen have been killed in central Nigeria’s Kogi state after gunmen stormed a police station in an attack claimed by Islamic State.State police spokesperson William Ovye Aya said a fierce gun battle took place after “hoodlums” entered the station in Adavi town on Saturday. Continue reading...

Mike Haines says guilt of El Shafee Elsheikh in a US trial provides ‘some closure’ for death of David HainesThe brother of a British aid worker killed by an Islamic State cell known as “the Beatles” said the conviction of one of their members had closed “an eight-year chapter of pain” for his family.Mike Haines, whose brother David Haines was captured by militants in...

Mother is unlikely to survive without medical intervention, leaving her young son orphaned, say doctorsMPs and a human rights group have called on the UK government to repatriate a young British boy and his gravely ill mother from a detention camp in Syria, after doctors said she was at risk of dying and leaving the child orphaned.The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said it...

Peter Kassig, who was later killed, described paralysis and hope and offered words of comfort to his familyAn American hostage’s harrowing story about captivity at the hands of the Islamic State militants who would kill him was recounted in court in Virginia on Wednesday.A letter from the late Peter Kassig was read aloud during the terrorism trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, a 33-year-old former...

The mother of slain US relief worker Kayla Mueller testified Tuesday at the trial of one of her daughter's alleged captorsThe mother of slain US relief worker Kayla Mueller testified on Tuesday at the trial of one of her daughter’s alleged Islamic State (IS) captors, recounting the desperate pleas for her release and tortuous negotiations.Marsha Mueller’s emotional testimony came on the fifth day of...

As a Virginia jury hears horrific allegations, experts say the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh sets an important precedentAs the trial against the accused Islamic State fighter El Shafee Elsheikh began this week on American soil, jurors in a northern Virginia courtroom were quickly exposed to accounts of unimaginable brutality.Elsheikh, prosecutors alleged, carried out terrorist acts that involved the grisly deaths of four Americans...

Security cabinet in emergency talks ahead of Ramadan, Passover and Easter celebrationsIsrael’s prime minister has called on citizens with gun licences to arm themselves after the bloodiest attack in years in greater Tel Aviv, which marked the third such killings spree in the Jewish state in a week.“What is expected of you, Israeli citizens? Vigilance and responsibility,” the country’s far-right leader, Naftali Bennett, said...

Police say two terrorists were shot dead after they began firing at police in city of Hadera, as Israel hosts envoys from four Arab statesIslamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack in which two Israeli police were killed in the northern city of Hadera on Sunday. The claim was made in a statement posted on its Telegram account.Police said that “two terrorists arrived...

Audio message names Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi as new leader in first admission of former head’s deathIslamic State has named a new leader after confirming that its previous head was killed by the US in north-western Syria over a month ago.In an audio message released on Thursday, an IS spokesman, Abu Omar al-Muhajer, confirmed the death of the group’s leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi,...