What Life Is Like Under ISIS in Syria

Friday is the day for public beheadings.

In some areas under ISIS rule, children as young as 10 are being recruited and trained as fighters for the group.

"In areas of Syria under ISIS control, particularly in the north and northeast of the country, Fridays are regularly marked by executions, amputations and lashings in public squares," the report said.

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The punishments are carried out in a manner to maximize the psychological impact.

"Civilians, including children, are urged to watch. Bodies of those killed are placed on display for several days, terrorizing the local population," according to the U.N. report.

Women and children are particularly vulnerable to ISIS enforcers.

"Women have been lashed for not abiding by ISIS’s dress code. In Ar-Raqqah, children as young as 10 are being recruited and trained at ISIS camps," the report states. It also found that journalists and other media workers are targeted.

"Members of ISIS have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity ... including acts of torture, murder, enforced disappearances and forcible displacement," the report states.

ISIS has galvanized international opposition with its brutal threats to Kurds, Christians and Yazidis, ordering them to convert or be killed, and the U.N. said it "poses a clear and present danger to civilians, and particularly minorities, under its control in Syria and in the region."