A Window Onto The 'Shocking' Final Days Of ISIS In Mosul
Abductions. Mass killings. Use of child soldiers. In a report released by two U.N. human rights groups, a brutal, bloody portrait emerges of the group's reign in the region.
Months after Mosul was reclaimed from the Islamic State, the brutal acts committed during the militant group's reign over the major Iraqi city are still coming into focus. That picture grew clearer Thursday, as two U.N. human rights agencies released a report on atrocities committed during ISIS' final months in power.
In a stroke of apparent understatement, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner "strongly suggests that international crimes may have been perpetrated in Iraq by ISIL," referring to the extremist group by another abbreviation.
