A Brussels court docket on Thursday discovered Belgian jihadist Sammy Djedou — presumed killed in a 2016 airstrike — responsible of genocide in opposition to Iraq’s Yazidis. Djedou, an Islamic State fighter reported lifeless in Raqqa, was tried in absentia after Belgium acquired no formal affirmation of his demise in its first Yazidi-related mass-crimes case.[/gpt3]