The US secretary of state said extremist group is responsible for acts of genocide against Christians,Yazidis and Shia Muslims amid mounting global pressureThe US has declared that Islamic State is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities, amid mounting global pressure to recognise atrocities committed in Iraq and Syria as a deliberate drive to wipe out certain devout groups.
US secretary of state John Kerry said that Isis, and known in Arabic by its acronym Daesh,was “genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology and by actions, or in what it says,in what believes and in what it does”.
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Source: theguardian.com