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Inside Islamic State group’s rule: Creating a nation of fear

Zeina Karam, Vivian Salama, Bram Janssen, Lee Keath

In this Wednesday, May 27, 2015 photo, Salim Ahmed, a former Iraqi Army member, holds the "repentance card" he received from the Islamic State group in June 2014 shortly after the militants took over his home village of Eski Mosul in northern Iraq. The document is part of the apparatus of control the Islamic State group has constructed across its self-declared "caliphate," the territory it conquered in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen) (AP)

Inside Islamic State group’s rule: Creating a nation of fear

Zeina Karam, Vivian Salama, Bram Janssen, Lee Keath

Inside Islamic State group’s rule: Creating a nation of fear

Zeina Karam, Vivian Salama, Bram Janssen, Lee Keath