Life under Islamic State in Iraq's Falluja: danger, rage and profit


  • World
  • Tuesday, 04 Nov 2014

Residents inspect a market after a bomb attack in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, August 3, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - After Islamic State seized Falluja in January it persuaded a man making covers for cars to sell suicide vests instead, one of many changes in the Iraqi city as it adapts to life under the ultra-hardline Sunni militants.

Islamic State is notorious for beheading or executing anyone who stands in its way when seizing cities and towns in Iraq and Syria that form its self-proclaimed caliphate, often using suicide bombers to make advances.

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