Women interviewed for International Rescue Committee report tell of attacks involving kidnap, rape, torture and murder. Rape is a significant and disturbing feature of the Syrian civil war, with women and girls citing sexual violence as their main reason for fleeing the country. According to a recent report, women and girls told the International Rescue Committee (IRC) of being attacked in public and in their homes, primarily by armed men. The rapes, sometimes by several men, often occurred in front of family members.