(AFP) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said they had charged a German woman with war crimes and abetting genocide with the Islamic State group in Syria by “enslaving” a Yazidi woman. The authorities brought the charges, which also included crimes against humanity and […]
(AFP) A German woman who joined the Islamic State group in Syria as a 15-year-old was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence on Wednesday but cleared of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity. Judges found Leonora Messing, now 22, guilty of membership […]
(Deutsche Welle) A German woman accused of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity while a member of the extremist “Islamic State” (IS) group in Syria went on trial behind closed doors in the eastern city of Halle on Tuesday. Leonora M., who went to […]
(AP) A German woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group and whose husband bought a Yazidi woman as a slave has been charged with membership in a terror group and being an accessory to a crime against humanity, […]
(Deutsche Welle) German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Sunday said he was “relieved” that a “humanitarian” recovery operation had brought home 18 children and five “Islamic State” (IS) brides from Kurdish-run internment camps in northeastern Syria. One of three German women brought back, identified in reports as […]
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