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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on July 31, 2018, 03:55:14 am
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36 Women, Children Kidnapped by IS Last Week in Syria's Sweida
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by Naharnet Newsdesk
The Islamic State group has been holding dozens of Druze women and children hostage since attacking their villages last week in Syria's southern province of Sweida, a monitor said Monday.
"At least 36 Druze women and children were abducted after the attacks," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Read more at: http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/249010-36-women-children-kidnapped-by-is-last-week-in-syria-s-sweida (http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/249010-36-women-children-kidnapped-by-is-last-week-in-syria-s-sweida)
If the US does not maintain its support for the SDF, the only realistic option for the organization is to reach some sort of understanding with the Syrian regime, despite their own doubts about the intentions of Bashar al-Assad.
As Salih Muslim, a senior member in the ruling council of SDF-controlled Syria told Kurdistan 24 two weeks ago, Assad’s regime is not serious in its negotiations.
http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/a1ec545e-0beb-4fe1-9a0f-63aad052cf27 (http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/a1ec545e-0beb-4fe1-9a0f-63aad052cf27)
Syria/Russia do very little against ISIS, what a confused situation and it's not our responsibility to take care of the whole thing at that. Now, it appears ISIS is creeping back into the picture.