Syria: Islamists hijacked approx. 300 Kurds. They were released in … – Gazeta.pl

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Spokesman Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD, and the main Kurdish party in Syria) Nawaf Khalil said that Kurds were released after a day in captivity in members of the Islamist group Jaysh al-Islam. According to this source were released in exchange for three Islamists who were earlier arrested by Kurdish forces in Afrinie.

300 people were abducted

The representative of the Kurdish canton Koban, Nassan Idris, said earlier that the kidnappers abducted approx. 300 Kurdish men, and let go women and children. They traveled several bus and minibus from the Kurdish town of Afrin to Aleppo, where they collect their pay.

Release Kurdish hostages confirmed domiciled in the UK The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. However, the Observatory reported that the kidnapped approx. 200 people detained on several checkpoints.

For the last four years in the Syrian civil war takes place, in which joined the increasingly strong jihadi groups, fighting both with moderate rebels and also the forces of the regime in Damascus.

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