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France charges IS official's ex-wife with crimes against humanity

Iraq's Yazidi minority commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Islamic State group "genocide" against their community at their annual summer festival in at the holy site of Lalish in the ancestral hub of Sinjar. AFP

France has charged the ex-wife of a top Islamic State official with crimes against humanity on suspicion of enslaving a teenage Yazidi girl in Syria, French media reported.

A woman identified as Sonia M., the former wife of the jihadist group's head of external operations Abdelnasser Benyoucef, was charged on 14 March, Le Parisien daily newspaper reported on Saturday.

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