19 of 220 abducted Assyrians released by Islamic State

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Islamic State had demanded a ransom in return for sparing the hostages? lives
Islamic State had demanded a ransom in return for sparing the hostages? lives

The Islamic State (IS) militants on Sunday released 19 Christian Assyrians it had kidnapped last month, a monitoring group reported.

An Islamic State fighter (Reuters / Stringer)
An Islamic State fighter (Reuters / Stringer)

The 19 people are the first batch of 29 Assyrians the sharia court of the IS exonerated on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
On Feb. 23, the IS abducted 220 Christian Assyrians during an assault it had waged on predominantly Assyrian areas, mainly in the area of Tal Tamr and its countryside in Syria’s northeastern province of al-Hasakah.
The fate of the other abductees is still unknown amid reports that the rest of the Assyrians are awaiting tials in the IS courts.
There is no clear reason why would the IS even put the Assyrians on trial.
Also on Sunday, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV said the Syrian troops captured as many as 33 towns in the eastern countryside of Hasaka after clashes with the IS. Enditem

Source: Xinhua

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