Section: ISIS

Accountability

Camp Speicher: 1,700 Killed in One Day — Iraq's Largest Single ISIS Massacre and the Unfinished Reckoning

Camp Speicher: 1,700 Killed in One Day — Iraq's Largest Single ISIS Massacre and the Unfinished Reckoning On June 12, 2014 — two days after ISIS seized Mosul — the group executed between 1,500 and 1,700 Iraqi Air Force c…

31 May 2026
Accountability

5,000 ISIS Detainees Moved from Syria to Iraq: Justice or a Legal Black Hole?

5,000 ISIS Detainees Moved from Syria to Iraq: Justice or a Legal Black Hole? In early 2026, the United States transferred more than 5,000 ISIS-linked detainees from Syrian prisons to Iraqi custody — including senior lea…

4 April 2026
Accountability

UNITAD Is Closing: Who Protects the Witnesses Now?

UNITAD Is Closing: Who Protects the Witnesses Now? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com On September 17, 2024, the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Acc…

10 April 2024
Accountability

Sinjar: Ten Years After the Genocide — What Has Changed?

Sinjar: Ten Years After the Genocide — What Has Changed? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com On August 3, 2014, ISIS launched a coordinated attack on Sinjar. With…

3 October 2023
Children

Born in Captivity: The Children ISIS Left Behind and the State That Refuses to Recognize Them

Born in Captivity: The Children ISIS Left Behind and the State That Refuses to Recognize Them By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com She was 24 years old, living in …

18 May 2023
Displacement

Tal Afar After Liberation: A City Without a Future?

Tal Afar After Liberation: A City Without a Future? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com When Iraqi forces declared Tal Afar fully liberated from ISIS on September…

14 July 2022
Iraq

Yazidi Women Who Escaped ISIS: Between Trauma and Social Rejection

Yazidi Women Who Escaped ISIS: Between Trauma and Social Rejection By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com They survived enslavement. They escaped. They came home. An…

8 April 2022
Accountability

Iraq's Amnesty Law

Iraq's Amnesty Law: Justice for the Wrongly Detained — or a Path to Freedom for ISIS Perpetrators? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Iraq's General Amnesty Law …

15 January 2022