Germany detains Iraqi couple suspected of genocide against Yazidis

FILE - A man sits next to coffins holding the remains of Yazidis killed in Islamic State attacks in 2014, after they were exhumed from a mass grave in Mosul, Iraq, June 20, 2023. Germany said on April 10, 2024, it arrested an Iraqi couple accused of genocide against the Yazidis.

German officials are interrogating an Iraqi couple who are suspected of committing crimes that may amount to genocide while they were associated with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria between October 2015 and December 2017.