Islami­c State has gained an unmatc­hed reputa­tion for brutal­itySHEBERGHAN, AFGHANISTAN: A mother of three from a remote area of northwestern Afghanistan remembers the day the head of a local Islamic State group came to her village, demanding money he said her husband had promised. And he did everything he could to me.”Islamic State claims attack on Afghan midwife centerEven by the bloody standards of the Afghan war, Islamic State has gained an unmatched reputation for brutality, routinely beheading opponents or forcing them to sit on explosives. Daesh is an Arabic term for Islamic State. But the accounts were broadly endorsed by government officials who say Islamic State is trying to import an entirely foreign ideology. Documents captured in Syria in 2015 revealed ways in which Islamic State theologians regulated the use of female captives for sexual purposes.

Source: The Express Tribune July 30, 2018 09:11 UTC