Islamists rape, sell women because they are ‘war booties’

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A new United Nations report revealed that the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) consider women – mostly youth from local communities – as goods to be raped, sold as sex slaves, or given as “war booties” to its fighters. ISIS even opened an office in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, for the sale of abducted women. Teenage boys are not spared from sexual assaults, however, and Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq are asked to choose between converting to Islam or being killed, the report said. The UN said these acts amounted to war crimes or crimes against humanity.

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