SULAIYMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Islamic State militant Amar Hussein says he reads the Koran all day in his tiny jail cell to become a better person. Sixty-three Islamic State militants died. Witnesses and Iraqi officials say Islamic State fighters raped many Yazidi women after the group rampaged through northern Iraq in 2014. Human rights groups have chronicled widespread abuses by Islamic State against the Yazidis. He said he and his brother joined Islamic State because otherwise, as state employees, they would have been killed by the group.

Source: The Star February 17, 2017 15:11 UTC