(Reuters-New York Times) Islamic State militants have abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three-day offensive, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday. "ISIS now controls ten Christian villages," Observatory head Rami Abdulrahman said. "They have taken the people they kidnapped away from the villages and into their territory."
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