Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis, says UN Syria panel

Islamic State is committing genocide and other war crimes against the Yazidi community in Iraq and Syria, a UN investigative panel on Syria said as it urged countries to do more to stop it.

The Council of Inquiry on Syria issued its first report specifically looking at IS crimes against Yazidis following the group's attack on unarmed Yazidi communities in north-western Iraq in August 2014. Many Yazidis were taken into Syria.