GENEVA: The Islamic State group is committing crimes against humanity on a large scale in Syria, a UN report said Friday (Saturday in Manila), painting a horrific picture of beheaded minors and women held as sex slaves.

In its first report focused on acts by the IS group, the independent UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said massacres, beheadings, torture, sexual enslavement and forced pregnancy were now part of life in areas of the war-ravaged country under the control of the extremist jihadists.

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