Under cover of night, the IS militants slipped into the Iraqi town, pulled three men from their home and gunned them down. Despite the fall of their 'caliphate,' militants are still spreading fear with their insurgency.
weighs heavily especially on women and children, who face crushing discrimination because of male relatives seen as supporting IS.
Now the population is divided. Residents who suffered at the hands of IS or lost loved ones to the group are suspicious of neighbors they believe still support the militants. Within families, some members belonged to the group and others opposed it. They asked him about his father and brother. “I swear, they destroyed my life,” the man said. When asked about IS, he insisted, “I never came face to face with them.”
Among the most chilling IS attacks was the Jan. 3 killing of the three Abd brothers, carried out with brutal precision.
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