(Edith M. Lederer, AP) Evidence
collected in Iraq strengthens preliminary findings that Islamic State
extremists committed crimes against humanity and war crimes against the
Christian community after it seized about a third of the country in
2014, a U.N. investigative team said in a report circulated Thursday. The
report to the U.N. Security Council said crimes included forcibly
transferring and persecuting Christians, seizing their property,
engaging in sexual violence, enslavement and other “inhumane acts,” such
as forced conversions and destruction of cultural and religious sites. (...)
