![Zagidat Abakarova, 33, and her one-year-old daughter Mariam, returned to Dagestan, Russia, from northern Syria in October 2018](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201808ecamena_russia_womenchildren.jpg?itok=Wq6dhwVm)
![Zagidat Abakarova, 33, and her one-year-old daughter Mariam, returned to Dagestan, Russia, from northern Syria in October 2018](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201808ecamena_russia_womenchildren.jpg?itok=Wq6dhwVm)
August 3, 2018
Four Years on, Evidence of ISIS Crimes Lost to Time
Iraq Should Exhume Yezidi Mass Graves
![Yezidis at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province, August 10, 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2_0.jpg?itok=XzJs6Qih)
August 3, 2018
US Sent ISIS Detainees to Possible Abuse
Transfer from Northern Syria to Lebanon Raises Torture, Fair Trial Concerns
![A Lebanese soldier at an army post in the hills above the Lebanese town of Arsal](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201707mena_lebanon_arsal.jpg?itok=4mFvGuwR)
August 1, 2018
Syria: Thousands of Displaced Confined to Camps
Areas Taken from ISIS Restricting Free Movement
![View from hill overlooking Ain Issa displacement camp in Syria, May 2018. © Human Rights Watch](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807mena_syria_camps_0.jpg?itok=ow8HcY9S)
July 31, 2018
Iraq: Judges Disregard Torture Allegations
Failure to Investigate, Punish Security Forces Implicated in Abuse
![Risafa Central Criminal Court in Baghdad, where Human Rights Watch sat in on 18 felony trials in June and July, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807mena_iraq_court.jpg?itok=jBvfYVq3)
July 22, 2018
Iraq: Intelligence Agency Admits Holding Hundreds Despite Previous Denials
Ex-Detainee Describes Degrading Conditions
![A blank NSS arrest warrant provided to Human Rights Watch. © 2018 Private](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807mena_iraq_nss_arrest.jpg?itok=y9_aeJmG)
July 3, 2018
Syria: Mass Graves in Former ISIS Areas
Local Group Struggling to Recover Bodies, Preserve Evidence
![Members of the First Responders Team in Raqqa city, Syria exhume a body from a mass grave at the al-Rashid playing field.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807eme_raqqa_syria_0.jpg?itok=ve9q-fFE)
June 24, 2018
Iraq: Displaced Families Blocked from Returning
No Security, Military Reason for Arbitrary Restrictions
![Residents of Shahama camp speak with relatives through the camp fence.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/10.jpg?itok=8duBVwAG)
June 21, 2018
Iraq: Change Approach to Foreign Women, Children in ISIS-Linked Trials
Rushed Proceedings, Lack of Due Process, Disproportionate Sentences
![Russian women, sentenced to life in prison on grounds of joining ISIS, sit with children in a hallway of Baghdad's Central Criminal Court, April 29, 2018. © 2018 Ammar Karim/AFP/Getty Images](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201806tct_iraq_isis.jpg?itok=xJ9lXY9J)
![The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss adopting a resolution to help preserve evidence of Islamic State crimes in Iraq, during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York, U.S., September 21, 2017. © 2017Reuters](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201804ij_iraq_securitycouncil.jpg?itok=pmUT8jA5)
April 26, 2018
Iraq: Local Forces Banish ISIS Suspects’ Families
Relatives Punished Though Considered Innocent
![Minutes of a meeting in al-Ba’aj on February 7, 2018, where sheikhs and mukhtars were instructed not to grant security clearances to relatives of ISIS members. © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201804mena_iraq_minutes.jpg?itok=z0HkNsPF)
April 20, 2018
Iraq: Officials Dispose of Potential War Crime Evidence
No Results From Promised Investigations
![Burned out remains of a room in a damaged house in Mosul’s Old City, following the authorities’ removal of about 80 bodies, April 4, 2018. © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201804mena_iraq_burnedoutremains.jpg?itok=E2E8lfrz)