Midwife describes working under ISIL, taking a dangerous stand for women

AL-QAIM CITY, Iraq –Um Qassem was working as a midwife in Al-Qaim City, in Iraq ’s Anbar Province, when the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Da’esh) swept into the country in mid-2014. Seemingly overnight, her life became a nightmare, she said – especially when the group tried to recruit her.“ISIL constantly threatened me, my husband, and my family, as well as other doctors and nurses. We were working under fear,” she described.
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