Islamic State militants
have kidnapped at least 90 people from Christian villages in Syria. According
to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group that tracks violence
in Syria said on Tuesday.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants carried out dawn raids on rural villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority west of Hasaka, a city mainly held by the Kurds.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants carried out dawn raids on rural villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority west of Hasaka, a city mainly held by the Kurds.
Syrian Kurdish militia have
renewed their assault on the militants, launching two offensives against them
in northeast Syria on Sunday, helped from U.S.-led air strikes and Iraqi
peshmerga who have been shelling Islamic State-held territory from their side
of the nearby border.
This part of Syria is
strategically important in the fight against Islamic State because it borders
territory controlled by the group in Iraq, where last year the ultra-hardline
group committed atrocities against the Yazidi community.
Tel Tamr, a town near the
Assyrian Christian villages where the abductions occurred, has witnessed heavy
clashes between Islamic State fighters and the Kurdish YPG militia, the
Observatory said.
Reuters
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