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| Syria Army Frees Druze Hostages from IS | |
| 2018-11-09 | |
| [An Nahar] Syrian state media said Thursday the army has freed all remaining Druze women and kiddies kidnapped in July from the southern province of Sweida 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. The army "clashed directly with the IS terrorist organization, which had kidnapped women and kiddies from the Sweida province," state news agency SANA said. Government troops "were able to liberate all the 19 hostages... and kill the terrorist kidnappers," it added. State television broadcast images of veiled women, boys and at least one girl surrounded by men in military uniforms near a white pick-up truck in a desert landscape. It said the images were broadcast from the desert near the ancient city of Palmyra in the center of the country. IS jihadists kidnapped around 30 people -- mostly women and kiddies -- from Sweida in late July during the deadliest attack on Syria's Druze community of the seven-year civil war.
A Syrian opposition war monitor contradicted the reports on state media, saying IS set free the hostages in return for the government’s release of women related to IS fighters and commanders who were held by Syrian authorities as well as a monetary payment. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not immediately clear how much money the government paid for the release of the hostages. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Thanks Guys. I will remember this! |
| Posted by: newc 2018-11-09 04:13 |