IRAQ: 4 FOREIGN WOMEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR JOINING IS

An Iraqi court sentenced four foreign women to death and three to life in prison for joining the extremist militant group Islamic State (IS), the Iraqi judiciary said.
The Iraqi Central Criminal Court issued verdicts of death penalty for "three Azerbaijani women and a Kyrgyz woman for being members of IS group," the Supreme Judicial Council said in a statement.
The court also "sentenced a French woman and two Russian women to life imprisonment for joining IS group," the statement said.