You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Kazakhstan Says Dozens of 'Hostages' Evacuated from Syria
2019-01-10
[AnNahar] Kazakhstan on Wednesday said dozens of its citizens, including children, had been evacuated from Syria after being held "hostage" in the country.

Hundreds of Kazakhs have left the Moslem-majority country to join up with bad boy groups in Syria since 2011, according to Kazakhstan's security services.

"On January 6 this year... 47 citizens of Kazakhstan, including 30 children, were evacuated from Syria," Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev
...has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Or maybe it's the other way around...
said.

"They were deceived into going to this country in crisis where they were held hostage by terrorists," Nazarbayev said.

"We will continue to work on the return of children who (were taken to) a combat zone against their will," he added, without providing details of the operation.

In 2014, authorities reacted to an official 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) group propaganda video showing Kazakh child soldiers training by blocking media outlets that shared the footage.

One such outlet, British tabloid The Daily Mail, only became accessible in the ex-Soviet country late last year.

Kazakhstan has hosted a series of talks on Syria brokered by Iran, Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
since the beginning of 2017.

The talks have featured negotiators from the Syrian regime and armed rebel factions but not bad boy groups such as IS.

Thousands from other Central Asian nations and the Caucasus have traveled to Syria to join jihadists since war broke out there.
Posted by:trailing wife

00:00