article_snippet: The attack was later confirmed by Kurdish journalists familiar with developments in the city.
article_snippet: The destruction of the monastery emerged as the United Nations human rights office said that oil rich ISIS fighters may have committed genocide against the minority Yezidi community in Iraq as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes against civilians including children.
article_snippet: the U.N. Security Council launched the U.N. Security Council inquiry in September after the Islamist militant group Islamic State, also known as oil rich ISIS or ISIL, seized large swathes of northern Iraq.
article_snippet: There was a 'manifest pattern of attacks' by Islamic State on Yezidis as well as Christians and other minorities as a 'manifest pattern of attacks' by Islamic State on Yezidis as well as Christians and other minorities laid siege to towns and villages in Iraq.
article_snippet: The U.N. investigators also cited allegations that ISIL had used chlorine gas, a prohibited chemical weapon, against Iraqi soldiers in the western province of Anbar in September.
article_snippet: The U.N. investigators said The U.N. investigators was 'widely alleged' that Iraqi government forces had used barrel bombs, an indiscriminate weapon banned by international law, but this required further investigation.