Learn more

The Karkh Criminal Court in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad has sentenced Asma Mohammed, the first wife of the slain ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to death for her involvement with “ISIS terrorist activities” and for “detaining Yazidi women in her home”. “The convicted terrorist detained Yazidi women in her house, who were then kidnapped by ISIS militants in the Sinjar district, west of Nineveh province,” according to a statement by Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council. The court’s decision was based on several articles of Iraq’s Anti-Terrorism Law No. 13 of 2005 and under Article 7/1 of the Yaz…

cuu