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ISIS (The Islamic State of Iraq in Syria), also know as ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) or Islamic State, is a jihadist organization based in Syria and Iraq. Its leader is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It is considered a terrorist organisation by the United States.

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4 Nov, 2011

Forced to watch snuff videos

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Human Rights Watch says ISIS forced 153 boys as young as 14 in Kobani to watch videos of beheadings and crucifixions while listening to religious lectures, and flogged them with cables for not paying attention. Former prisoner:

Those who didn’t conform to the program were beaten. They beat us with a green hose or a thick cable with wire running through it. They also beat the soles of our feet.

2009

Released

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U.S. forces release Al-Baghdadi from Camp Bucca, the biggest U.S. detention camp in Iraq. Kenneth King, commander at the time:

We spent how many missions and how many soldiers were put at risk when we caught this guy and we just released him.

Al-Baghdadi is not viewed as a threat upon release:

He said, ‘I’ll see you guys in New York,’ like, ‘This is no big thing, I’ll see you on the block’