Harsh rules, violent punishments under IS rule
For the millions forced to endure the Islamic State group's brutal rule, life in the "caliphate" was a living hell where girls were enslaved, music was banned and homosexuality was punishable by death.The jihadists applied an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islamic law across the swathes of Syria and Iraq that they captured in 2014, torturing or executing anyone who disobeyed.The fall of the last sliver of IS territory in eastern Syria marks the end of their proto-state, once the size of th
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