ISIL Terrorists Kidnap 50 Kurds including Women and Children: Syria

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Terrorists of the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq and Levant" (ISIL) have kidnapped at least 50 Kurds during the past three days, a Syrian opposition monitoring group said on Thursday.

The kidnappings come months into major battles of several parts of northern Syria that have pitted Kurdish fighters against the terrorists.
"In the past three days, ISIL has kidnapped at least 51 Kurds in the towns of Minbej and Jarablus," said the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Among the hostages were nine children and a woman, said the Britain-based group, adding that there was no information on where they had been taken.
Minbej and Jarablus are located in Aleppo province, which is home to a Kurdish minority.

The kidnappings come weeks after Kurdish fighters further east, in majority Kurdish areas, expelled extremist militants after battles that lasted several months.
In July, ISIL kidnapped some 200 Kurdish civilians from the Kurdish towns of Tal Aran and Tal Hassel also in Aleppo province. Only a few of those hostages have since been released, the Observatory says.

Source: Agencies