IS Victim Appeals for International Justice

A young Yazidi woman, who was held captive and abused by self-proclaimed Islamic State fighters in Iraq, has appealed to the international community to refer the terror group's crimes to the International Criminal Court. Accusing IS of carrying out "collective genocide" on the Yazidi religious minority, Nadia Murad Basee Taha, 21, told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that "there were murders, collective slavery — and that needs to be qualified as...

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