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Veiled women sit as they chat in a garden in the ISIS-controlled province of Raqqa in northern Syria.
Conflict
In ISIS-held territory, the Great Satan is the beauty shop
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
Conflict & Justice
Local authorities use a whisper campaign to round up gay men in northern Nigeria
Division developing between main Islamist parties in Egypt