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A Yazidi slave girl has claimed the high-ranking ISIS commander who held her prisoner was a white American who directed the terror group's attacks and received personal letters from its leader. Nada, 19, told MailOnline that US citizen Abu Abdullah al-Amriki (the American), 23, boasted about how beautiful women from all over the world wanted to join him in Syria and that he always kept a vial of poison on him - in case he was captured in battle. She was bought by the ISIS emir - or local leader - at a slave auction in Islamic State's de-facto capital...

A Saudi couple tortured their Sri Lankan maid by hammering 24 hot nails into her after she complained of her heavy workload. X-rays showed the brutal result after the nails were hammered into the hands, legs and feet of LT Ariyawathi, a 49-year-old mother-of-three. Mrs Ariyawathi had returned to Sri Lanka on Friday after five months in Saudi Arabia. Doctors discovered the 1in to 2in nails inside her body. One had been hammered in over her eyes, officials said. Mrs Ariyawathi told a local newspaper that her employers tortured her with the nails as punishment. 'They (employer and his family)...