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ISIS kidnaps dozens of women, girls in deadly Syria raids
https://www.cbsnews.com ^ | 7/30/18

Posted on 08/04/2018 8:38:58 PM PDT by BBell

A war monitoring group says Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters seized 36 women and children during simultaneous attacks on the southeastern province of Sweida last week. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday that 20 women and 16 children were seized from al-Shobki village in Sweida during the Wednesday attacks.

The ambush by suspected ISIS militants left at least 221 people dead. Reports on social media suggest ISIS has sent photos of some of the kidnapped women, most of them from the minority Druze sect prevalent in Sweida, to their families in via WhatsApp.

The suspected ISIS kidnappers have purportedly made demands for the women and children's release, but the families have not said what they're demanding.

Syrian warplanes carried out a number of airstrikes targeting ISIS positions in the northern and eastern countryside of Sweida at dawn on Monday. The strikes targeted the Kara'a area, which is considered a major ISIS stronghold in the desert of Sweida province.

Sweida, which is mainly government-held and populated with members of Syria's Druze minority, had been largely insulated from the conflict raging in the rest of the country since 2011, but on Wednesday, a string of suicide blasts and shootings claimed by ISIS shattered the peace in the provincial capital and nearby villages, most of them civilians.

The ISIS jihadists abducted the women and children from al-Shobki village, according to the Syrian Observatory, which said four women had since managed to escape while another two had died. That left 14 women and 16 children in ISIS captivity, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. Another 17 men were unaccounted for, but it was unclear if they were also kidnapped.

ISIS has not claimed the kidnappings and no details on them could be found on its propaganda channels.

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TOPICS: Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alawiteshatethedruze; druze; failedstate; girls; isil; isis; islam; islamic; kidnaps; muslim; muslims; syria; women
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To: BBell

“Syrian Observatory for Human Rights”

Usually fails the smell test.


21 posted on 08/04/2018 10:55:48 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (TEAM WEASEL: fraudulent bumbling imposters)
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To: BBell
The Twitter hashtag activists will get right on this.


22 posted on 08/04/2018 11:05:12 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Heaven has a wall and strict immigration policy. Hell has open borders--seen on a tee shirt)
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To: BBell

Quick get the wookie out with her poster


23 posted on 08/05/2018 3:57:44 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: BBell
reminds me of this painting (Rape of the Sabine Women)....
24 posted on 08/05/2018 5:10:26 AM PDT by ConservativeStLouisGuy (11th FReeper Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Unnecessarily Excerpt)
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To: BBell

Syria........why dont I fully believe this?


25 posted on 08/05/2018 5:19:27 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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