After the political shift in Iraq in 2003, some armed groups appeared in multiple areas, carrying extreme ideology and calls for the use of violence, under religious cover, against everyone who disagrees its ideology, practicing torture, killings, forcing displacement, captivation of women, recruiting the young and the children and committing many other severe human rights violations damaging people’s dignity. These groups also called for young people to convert to their ideology and join their armed groups using pull factors represented by money, leaderships, and other seductive factors.
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