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Years on from fall of Daesh, French citizens face justice in Iraq

BAGHDAD: A decade ago, the Daesh group broadcast its crimes as it recruited radicals from around the world and imposed a brutal system of oppression across swathes of Syria and Iraq. Years on from the group’s military defeat, accused members are again in the spotlight — this time on trial in Iraq, including French nationals, for atrocities committed against the people trapped in the so-called caliphate. Trials began in September for 47 French citizens who were transferred from Syria last year, c