Sayed, who grew up in Raqqa, paints a surprising picture of life under IS. Over the past two yeares, for the most part, things were normal enough for all the city’s Sunni inhabitants, notwithstanding the fact that men were forced to attend mosque and women to wear the face-covering niqab. But the intensified skirmishing with Kurds elsewhere in the region seems to have turned IS against the Kurdish civilians living in its domain. Never mind their religious practices; the Kurds' ethnicity has made them suspect.
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