ISIS abducts dozens of Christians from Syrian town: monitor
Beirut, Aug 7: The Islamic State (ISIS) militants have abducted dozens of Christian families after seizing a strategically located town in the central Syrian province of Homs, media reported.
According to UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 230 people including women and children were kidnapped by the group from Homs province.
The reliable sources informed monitor that many of them were kidnapped from a church in the city of Qaryatayn, where unknown militiamen kidnapped the pontiff Jack Mrad, who is the head of monastery, was kidnapped from the monastery 10 weeks ago.
ISIS
militants
have
captured
Qaryatain,
a
key
Syrian
town
populated
by
tens
of
thousands
of
Christians
and
a
monastery.
Qaryatain
is
located
65
miles
from
Palmyra,
is
home
to
40,000
people,
both
Sunni
Muslims
and
Christians.
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The clashes between the regime forces and allied militiamen against ISIS militants are still taking place between the city of Qaryatayn and town of Mahin in the southeast of Homs.
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