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Al-Qaeda militants kidnap US-backed Syrian rebel leader

ARA News ALEPPO – US-backed Syrian rebels on Sunday accused the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front of storming their headquarters in the northwestern Idlib province and abducting their commander and other...

July 4, 2016

Islamic State releases 19 Yezidi hostages

ARA News QAMISHLI – Radicals of the Islamic State (ISIS) released 19 Yezidi hostages who had been abducted during the group’s major attack on the district of Shingal in northern Iraq, Kurdish...

March 15, 2016

ISIS extremists abduct two Yezidis north Iraq

ARA News ERBIL – Militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) abducted on Thursday two Yezidi men from Shingal (Sinjar) district in northern Iraq, local sources reported. “ISIS terrorists kidnapped two men...

January 22, 2016

Abducted Syrian priest Jacques Mourad is free

ARA News HOMS – Syrian priest Jacques Mourad, who was abducted in May in the central province of Homs, “is free” and on Sunday conducted “his first mass” since his abduction, a...

October 12, 2015

ISIS infiltrates into Kobane, abducts dozens of Kurdish civilians

ARA News Kobane, Syria – Militants of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) infiltrated into the Kurdish village of Qolan in the southern countryside of Kobane, north Syria, and abducted dozens of civilians, local...

August 25, 2015

Al-Qaeda abducts Kurdish commander near Aleppo

ARA News Afrin, Syria – Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front has abducted a Kurdish commander from the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin region of Aleppo province, northeast Syria,...

August 24, 2015

Islamic State’s extremists destroy Assyrian monastery near Homs

ARA News Damascus, Syria – Militant fighters of the Islamic State radical group (IS/ISIS) destroyed the Assyrian monastery of Mar Elian in al-Qaryatain town in the Syrian province of Homs, local sources...

August 22, 2015

ISIS abducts dozens of Christians after seizing Syrian key town

ARA News Damascus, Syria – Militant fighters of Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) abducted about 220 civilians, including at least 60 Christians, after seizing the key town al-Qaryatain in the countryside of...

August 8, 2015

Syrian Priest disappears in as-Suwayda province, activists accuse Nusra Front

ARA News Erbil, Kurdistan Region – The Assyrian Network for Human Rights (ANHR) reported the disappearance of Father Antoine Peters, 50, parish priest of St. Phillips church in Shahba town of as-Suwayda...

July 16, 2015

Al-Qaeda abducts Syrian priest, Christians warn of sectarian strife

ARA News Qamishli, Syria – The Assyrian Network for Human Rights said that al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda branch in Syria) has abducted the priest of the Yaqoubiya village and Franciscan monk Father Zia Aziz in...

July 8, 2015

Pro-Assad militias accused of kidnapping Kurdish civilians in Hasakah

ARA News Hasakah, Syria – On Saturday, a Kurdish man was reportedly kidnapped from the Aziziyah neighborhood of the city of Hasakah in northeastern Syria, while returning home, local sources reported. The...

March 29, 2015

Islamists abduct hundreds civilians north Syria

ARA News Urfa, Turkey – Over the past five days, the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) has abducted more than 200 civilians in the cities of al-Bab and Manbij, in the western countryside of Aleppo, in northern...

February 16, 2015

Islamic State holds meeting with Syrian Arab tribes in Hasakah

ARA News Urfa, Turkey – Elders of the Arab clan of Jabour held a meeting with leading members of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) in the city of Shaddadi (50 km south of Hasakah), in northeastern Syria,...

January 3, 2015

Islamic State abducts sons of tribal leader in eastern Syria

ARA News Urfa, Turkey – Militants of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) abducted three sons of the Arab tribal leader of Baggara, Nawaf al-Bashir, in the city of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, local sources reported...

January 2, 2015

ISIS brings abducted Peshmerga fighters to Syria’s Hasakah: Activists

ARA News Qamishli, Syria – During the past two days, the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) has led dozens of Kurdish fighters from northern Iraq to the town of al-Hol in the eastern countryside of Hasakah, in...

January 1, 2015

A Kurdish girl abducted in Syria’s Amude, PYD’s forces accused

ARA News Amuda, Syria – On Tuesday, an underage Kurdish girl was abducted in front of her house in the city of Amuda in Hasakah province, in northeastern Syria, and her family accused gunmen of the...

December 25, 2014

Abduction.. phenomenon sweeps Syria’s north

ARA News Derik, Syria – Since the partial withdrawal of the Syrian security forces from Syria’s northern areas in summer of 2012, and the domination of Assayish forces and Popular Protection Units...

May 29, 2014

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