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One escapee of an ISIS training camp recalled that boys 15 years old and younger were sent on suicide missions, unaware that they were about to die.
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In January 2017, Al-Shabab executed a teenage boy and a young man accused of engaging in a sexual act, the first instance of the group prosecuting homosexuality.
In their own words
If a person has a chance to join the Islamic State and does not go there, on Judgment Day he will be asked why, and it is a sin to live in the land of infidels.
Akhror Saidakhmetov, ISIS Attempted Foreign Fighter Feb. 2015
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While ISIS released propaganda in an attempt to portray Mosul as a vibrant, functioning city – the economy collapsed under its brutal rule, causing basic services like electricity to be severely rationed.
In their own words
“Women are slaves. I want to reassure my Muslim brothers that Allah says slaves are permitted in Islam.”Monica Mark, “Missing Nigerian schoolgirls: Boko Haram claims responsibility for kidnapping,” Guardian, May 6, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/boko-haram-claims-responsibility-kidnapping-nigeria-schoolgirls.
Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram Leader May 2014
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In Mosul, ISIS offered to reward residents with a car in exchange for turning in a Kurdish family.
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Al-Khansaa Brigade, the all-female ‘morality police,’ use metal prongs to tear off chunks of flesh to punish women who violate ISIS’s strict dress code.
In their own words
I enjoy killing anyone that God commands me to kill – the way I enjoy killing chickens and rams.
Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram Leader Jan. 2012
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Boko Haram kidnaps women to punish whole villages or families who have defied or fought them.