(CNN) -- The U.N. Human Rights Council said Monday that it will send a special mission to Iraq to investigate human rights abuses and war crimes allegedly committed by ISIS. Iraqis have faced violence and unrest for more than a decade, but the situation has gotten worse in recent months as fighters for ISIS, which calls itself the Islamic State, seized sections of the country, said Flavia Pansieri, the U.N. deputy high commissioner for human rights. "The effect of the ongoing conflict on the children of Iraq has been catastrophic," Pansieri said during an emergency session in Geneva, Switzerland. "Many have become direct victims of the conflict, while others have been subjected to physical and sexual abuse, whose scars may remain with them throughout their lives."
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NEW: Two car bombs in Baghdad kill more than a dozen people, police say
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U.N. mission says 1,420 Iraqis killed in August; figures don't include Anbar province
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U.N. official calls the effect of violence on children "catastrophic"
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Ethnic and religious groups have been persecuted, official says
The airstrikes destroyed three ISIS trucks, severely damaged another, destroyed an @placeholder armed vehicle and destroyed a mortar position, Central Command said.