Islamic State releases 19 Assyrian Christians, over 200 still captive, report

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Two of the Assyrians that were released by ISIS on Sunday
Two of the Assyrians that were released by ISIS on Sunday, according to pictures released by Lebanese media reports

Islamic State released 19 Assyrian Christian captives in Syria on Sunday after processing them through a sharia court, a monitoring group which tracks the conflict said.

More than 200 Assyrians remain in Islamic State hands, said the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, captives from an Islamic State advance last month that overran more than a dozen villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority near Hasaka, a northeastern city mainly held by the Kurds.

Islamic State has not claimed any of the abductions. The Observatory tracks the conflict using a network of sources on all sides of the civil war which spiraled as security forces used violence to suppress protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule in 2011.

It said 17 men and two women were released.

Islamic State has killed members of religious minorities and Sunni Muslims who do not swear allegiance to its self-declared “caliphate”. The group last month released a video showing its members beheading 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya.

Reuters

Update another report indicated that 29 to be  released

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19 responses to “Islamic State releases 19 Assyrian Christians, over 200 still captive, report”

  1. What about the other christians??? Where is the world? How come that we are not seeing any reaction from anyone about the kidnapping. What did the christian did wrong in the middle east to deserve this kind of treatment ?

    1. If you are an example of the Christians in the middle east then you deserve kidnapping. Does Tk mean you are technically knocked out. Rhetorical question sweetie

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        You vicious immoral ISIS Christian killer, keep out of Christian affairs go to your Daesh or to Israel. Rat.

        1. Keep out of my posts you Iranian whore

          1. Patience2 Avatar
            Patience2

            A dip-sxit exposes his true mentality.

          2. Just in case you don’t understand the meaning of quotes, i didn’t say those things. The people who said them are listed under the quotes. dipshit.

            And you are one of the first to bark “freedom of speech” when a muslim complains about their religion being insulted. dipshit

          3. one other thing, dipshit, how come you never bark when daft mare insults Jews and sunnis?
            hypocritical dipshit.

        2. “I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race.”
          Alfred North Whitehead

        3. “I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough – I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.”
          Friedrich Nietzsche

        4. “Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions… Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.”
          George Santayana

        5. “The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.”
          Matilda Joslyn Gage

        6. “You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
          Bertrand Russell

        7. Patience2 Avatar
          Patience2

          Don’t let him pull your chain, Hind..he’s just some kind of dip-sxit.

      2. “Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.”
        Voltaire

    2. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      At first I couldn’t understand what was going on, after watching what happened to Christians in Iraq and now Syria, i can clearly say “they” want to empty the Middle East from it’s Christians.

      1. And at last you still don’t understand. What you fail to understand is that you will never understand.

    3. Anti ISIS Avatar
      Anti ISIS

      Looks like we have extremism in all religions. The world should be screaming out no just for the Christens, but all innocent people caught up in this BS conflict. Did the church not teach you to show compassion to all humans, or just Christians. Your comment is floored TK.

      1. Lol “floored”
        Hezbollah anti education at its best

      2. “Did the church not teach you to show compassion to all humans”

        So barked the hypocritical genetically modified labradoodle who hates Sunnis and Jews. Hypocrite here’s a bone(r).

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