200 Kurds Kidnapped In Syria

200 KURDS KIDNAPPED IN SYRIA

09:54 01.08.13

An Al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria kidnapped around 200 Kurdish
civilians after violent clashes with Kurdish fighters in the country,
a monitoring group said on Wednesday, according to Al Arabiya.

“Fighters of Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIS) have seized control of Tall Aren village in Aleppo
province and are laying siege to another village nearby, Tall Hassel.

They have taken hostage around 200 civilians from theinhabitants
of the two villages,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,
which collects data from medics and activists on the ground.

“They have taken hostage around 200 civilians from the inhabitants
of the two villages,” said the Observatory.

The main Kurdish militia called on Tuesday for battling jihadists
after a Kurdish leader was killed following weeks of clashes between
the Kurds and radical Islamists.

“We call on the Kurdish people… to step forward… anyone fit to
bear arms should join the ranks of the Committees for the Protection of
the Kurdish People (YPG) and to face the assaults of these [jihadist]
armed groups,” said a YPG statement quoted by Al Arabiya.

Isa Huso, a well-known Kurdish politician, was killed near his place
of residence in Qamishli.

“Despite our repeated calls to the National Coalition and the Free
Syrian Army (FSA) command… to date these parties have failed to
take a clear position” against the radicals, the YPG statement said.

It said it was clear that FSA battalions, Al-Nusra Front and ISIS
in particular, were coordinating with jihadist groups, adding that
these groups and the FSA “have become one side in attacking the
Kurdish people.”

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