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Iraqi Kurdish forces accused of committing war crimes

AMNESTY International accused Iraqi Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State (Isis) yesterday of ethnically cleansing Arab villages.

The rights group claimed that peshmerga troops of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) had bulldozed, burned and blown up thousands of homes in villages liberated from Isis.

It also said that Arab civilians were barred from returning to their villages.

  • Satellite photos obtained by the Associated Press agency have confirmed fears that Isis demolished Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery about 18 months ago.
  • Images show the destruction of the 1,400-year-old St Elijah’s monastery south of Mosul.
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