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ISIS releases 19 Christians, over 200 still held captive
02 March 2015
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The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) freed 19 Assyrian Christian captives in Syria on Sunday, a monitoring group said. Seventeen men and two women were released after going through a sharia court, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Over 200 Assyrians still remain captive after being taken hostage during the Islamic State’s latest advance near the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka, in which a dozen villages occupied by the Christian minority were attacked.
