Crimes of genocide were committed by Islamic State militants against an ancient religious community in Iraq and Syria, the UK has acknowledged. It means the atrocities inflicted by the jihadist group on the Yazidis join those of the Holocaust, Rwanda, Srebrenica and Cambodia recognised by Britain. The Kurdish-speaking minority were persecuted as 'devil worshippers' by IS after it seized large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014. Thousands of men were killed and women and children were enslaved and raped when the fanatics overran the ancestral home of the Yazidis. The UK's acknowledgement of genocide, the aim of...