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		</div><p>A report has unveiled a “staggering” civilian death toll in Iraq, with nearly 19,000 people killed in less than two years.</p>
<p>At least 18,802 civilians were killed and another 36,245 wounded between January 1 2014 and October 31 2015, according to the UN report.</p>
<p>The report details killings by the Islamic State group including by shooting and beheading, as well as by being burned alive or thrown off buildings.</p>
<p>The report also stated that the Islamic State group is believed to be holding approximately 3,500 people, predominantly women and children from the country’s Yazidi minority, captive as slaves.</p>
<p>IS swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014 plunging the country into its worst political and security crisis since the withdrawal of US troops in 2011.</p>
<p>Another 800 to 900 children were abducted from Iraq&#8217;s second largest city, Mosul, for religious and military training, the report said, while a number of IS child soldiers were killed by the extremists when they tried to flee fighting in the western Anbar province.</p>
<p>The report said such acts are “systematic and widespread&#8230; abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law”, adding: “These acts may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide.”</p>
<p>Iraqi forces have advanced against the IS group on a number of fronts in recent months and driven them out of the western city of Ramadi.</p>
<p>But U.N. envoy Jan Kubis said in a statement that “despite their steady losses to pro-government forces, the scourge of ISIL continues to kill, maim and displace Iraqi civilians in the thousands and to cause untold suffering.”</p>
<p>UN human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein said the civilian death toll may be considerably higher.</p>
<p>“Even the obscene casualty figures fail to accurately reflect exactly how terribly civilians are suffering in Iraq,” he said in a statement.</p>
<p>IS has set up a self-styled caliphate in the territories under its control, which it governs with a harsh and violent interpretation of Islamic law.</p>
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