{"id":1182,"date":"2015-02-24T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T09:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2015-02-24T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T09:49:40","slug":"isis-kidnaps-90-assyrian-christians-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/isis-kidnaps-90-assyrian-christians-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS kidnaps 90 Assyrian Christians in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Islamic State has kidnapped at least 90 Assyrian Christians in northeast Syria, Reuters reported, citing a monitoring group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The abductions happened after dawn, as villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority were raided by the terrorist group near the town of Tel Hmar, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tel Hmar is situated in the countryside of the city of Hasaka, controlled primarily by Kurds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This comes as Syrian Kurds carried out an offensive in northeastern Syria, next to the Iraqi border, inflicting losses on the ISIS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is just over a week since the terrorist group released a graphic video showing the execution of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians after their abduction in Libya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi called for a UN resolution enabling international forces to intervene in Libya following the incident, but didn\u2019t get much support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The killings triggered a harsh response from the Egyptian government, with air strikes carried out by the country\u2019s military shortly after the footage emerged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, a couple of weeks ago, shocking news emerged that the IS militants have killed kidnapped Iraqi children in ways as brutal as burying alive and crucifixion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those children not killed by the terrorists are sold as sex slaves, according to UN data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About a month ago, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto was beheaded by Islamic State, the latest in a series of journalists to be killed by the terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State has kidnapped at least 90 Assyrian Christians in northeast Syria, Reuters reported, citing a monitoring 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