Iraq: Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State - Security Council Briefing

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Published Jun 22, 2024

Briefing by Ana Peyró Llopis, Acting Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD).

A UN official said, “The request from the Government of Iraq in 2017, and the establishment of the Team by this Council in response, paved the way for six years of work that has permitted the Team to legally assess that the acts committed by ISIL in Iraq may amount to international crimes.”

Addressing the Security Council today (5 June), Ana Peyró Llopis, Acting Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da'esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant said that her Team has initiated its drawdown and liquidation to ensure an orderly withdrawal from Iraq by 17 September 2024, in line with Security Council resolution 2697.

She stated, “This year marks the tenth anniversary since Da’esh declared itself a caliphate. Ten years later, the calls for accountability to hold those responsible for the international crimes they committed in Iraq remain.”

She said, “As mandated by this Council, the Team has contributed towards addressing these calls by factually and legally assessing that the acts committed by ISIL in Iraq between 2014 and 2017 may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The evidence collected and processed by the Team, and the other materials and analyses it has produced, are also a useful asset.”

She highlighted, “These products will remain beyond the closure of the Team, and Member States, including Iraq, could consider them in the future to hold ISIL perpetrators accountable for the international crimes they committed in Iraq.”

She stressed, “Accountability for the international crimes committed by Da’esh in Iraq must continue. This is critical, not just to hold those who committed these crimes to account, but also, as this Council underlined in 2017, to ensure that the interests of the survivors in achieving this accountability are fully recognized.”