[ARA] On Friday, the radical group of 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....
(ISIS) released 15 Syrian Christians who had been held by the group in the town of al-Qaryatain in the central Syrian province of Homs, activists reported.
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The Assyrian Network for Human Rights reported Friday that the bad boy group has released 15 Christians who arrived to Fayrouzah area in the southeastern countryside of Homs.
The network added that the freed people were in a good health.
In the meantime, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the hostages have been released after paying Jizya --a tax imposed on non-Moslems.
More than 2000 Christians used to reside al-Qaryatain before the outbreak of the anti-Assad uprising mid-March 2011. Most of them left the town after violence hit Homs province.