UNITED NATIONS investigators accused Islamic State (Isis) yesterday of committing genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes against the Yazidi community in Iraq and Syria.

The UN commission of Inquiry on Syria issued its first report specifically looking at Isis crimes against Yazidis after its attack on unarmed Yazidi communities in north-western Iraq in August 2014.

Many Yazidis were taken into Syria and over 3,200 Yazidi women and children are still being held captive, the report said.