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Veiled women sit as they chat in a garden in the ISIS-controlled province of Raqqa in northern Syria.

In ISIS-held territory, the Great Satan is the beauty shop

February 5, 2015Conflict

An all-female group called al-Khanssaa Brigade has published a guide for women living under the rule of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, mandating veils, isolation and early marriages.

In the northern Nigeria state of Bauchi, the State Shariah Commission is using the Hisbah, or Islamic police, to find and arrest men they suspect of being gay. The hunt began when a local newspaper reported that homosexuals in Bauchi had formed an associa

Local authorities use a whisper campaign to round up gay men in northern Nigeria

February 7, 2014Conflict & Justice

Division developing between main Islamist parties in Egypt

August 15, 2013

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