IS frees six Syria Druze women, children after three-month ordeal
[AFP]Bachir El Khoury
,AFP•October 20, 2018
A mother and her four children, among six Druze hostages released by the Islamic State group after a three-month ordeal, appear for the cameras in a Syrian government office in the southern city of Sweida on October 20, 2018
Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State group has released two women and four children among 27 surviving Druze hostages it seized during a deadly July attack on the minority community's heartland in southern Syria.
State television broadcast footage of the six arriving in the city of Sweida on Saturday, joyful at being reunited with their families but haggard after their three-month ordeal.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said their release was the first part of a deal that would see at least 60 IS prisoners released in exchange and a $27 million ransom paid.
Read more at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/releases-six-27-druze-hostages-held-southern-syria-042757626.html
Huge ransom paid to ISIS per the article, last paragraph.
