New UN Rights Chief: Protect Women, Children From IS Threat

The new U.N. human rights chief has called for the protection of women and children targeted by Islamic State militants.  In a hard-hitting speech Monday in Geneva, Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al Hussein said any country run by Islamic State militants "would be a harsh, mean-spirited, house of blood." The Islamic State group has taken over large parts of of eastern Syria and northern and western Iraq as it seeks to impose an Islamic caliphate without regard to national...

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