ISIS Leader's Widow Sentenced to Death in Iraq

An Iraqi court has sentenced Asma Mohammed, a widow of the late Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to death for detaining and facilitating the kidnapping of Yazidi women by IS militants. This ruling, aligned with Iraq's anti-terrorism and Yazidi survivors laws, comes near the 10th anniversary of IS's genocidal campaign against the Yazidis in Sinjar. Mohammed was arrested in Turkey in 2018 and extradited to Iraq in 2019. Survivors and human rights groups have raised concerns over the accountability and due process in trials of IS members. The UN has previously classified IS's actions against the Yazidis as genocide.