Iraq Court Sentences Four to Death for Joining ISIS

A fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US ally in the fight against ISIS, holds a sniper rifle on his shoulder as he attends the funeral of a slain Kurdish commander in Qamishli, Syria, on Dec. 6, 2018. Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images

BAGHDAD—An Iraqi court has sentenced four people to death by hanging for belonging to the ISIS terrorist group and committing terrorist crimes in Iraq and Syria, a judiciary statement said on Sunday, April 21.

The four men, wanted by Iraqi authorities, were handed to Iraq by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the statement said.