ISIS Releases 19 Hostages

SYRIA

Updated Apr. 14, 2017 12:03PM EDT / Published Mar. 01, 2015 7:00PM EST

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The Islamic State reportedly released 19 Assyrian Christians who were kidnapped and held captive, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday. The monitoring group said ISIS processed 17 men and two women through a sharia court before letting them go. More than 200 Assyrians remain captive, after ISIS seized more than a dozen villages outside the northeastern city of Hasaka, which is mainly inhabited by the Kurds. ISIS has not claimed any of the abductions, but last month the militant group posted a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya.

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ISIS Releases 19 Hostages

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