Human Rights Watch says Kurdish forces are destroying Arab homes and expanding their territory.
Unlawful retaliation. That is what Iraqi Kurdish forces are being accused of.
US-based group Human Rights Watch says that they are destroying large numbers of Arab homes and and even whole villages in northern Iraq, in what may amount to a war crime.
The rights group says there's evidence of further destruction during the latest offensive against in Mosul.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces are part of an Iraqi alliance, helped by US-led air strikes, that is battling to retake control of Mosul from ISIL.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces are part of an Iraqi alliance, helped by US-led air strikes, that is battling to retake control of Mosul from ISIL.
Kurds make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East.
They have faced years of repression in their quest for an independent state.
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