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| Islamists Kidnap Then Free 300 Kurds in Syria |
| 2015-04-07 |
| [AnNahar] Islamist fighters on Monday kidnapped some 300 Kurdish civilians at a checkpoint in northwestern Syria, holding them several hours before setting them free, Kurdish officials and a monitor said. Newaf Khalil, a front man for the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), said the group were tossed into the calaboose by Jaysh al-Islam, a powerful Islamist group allied to al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front, Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate. Khalil said the Kurds were released in exchange for three Islamist fighters who were tossed into the calaboose in Afrin by Kurdish forces. He gave no other details. "A group of 300 people on five coaches and a mini-bus coming from Afrin were kidnapped at a checkpoint as they went to Aleppo to collect their salaries," Khalil had said after their abduction. The release was also reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Britannia-based monitoring group also reported that eight people were killed Monday and 28 others maimed in shelling by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in the central province of Hama. The shelling targeted the village of Salamiye, which has a majority Ismaili community, who belong to the Shiite branch of Islam, the Observatory said, adding that the Syrian army retaliated. Jaysh al-Islam -- one of the numerous gangs that has surfaced in Syria since the conflict emerged four years ago -- fights alongside al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... in Idlib but also operates in Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus. Al-Nusra helped capture the lovely provincial capital Idlib city on March 28 along with a coalition of other opposition groups. |
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