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Mardean Isaacs

A refugee from the minority Yazidi sect carries a sign referring to the Kurdish People's Defence Units in Qamishli, northeastern Syria on August 17, 2014. Yazidis and Assyrians are two of the minority sects under assault from ISIS.

Syria’s Assyrian Christians are now in the crosshairs of ISIS

February 24, 2015Conflict

As many as 90 Assyrian Christians have been kidnapped from villages in northeastern Syria by ISIS fighters, and may become fodder for a prisoner exchange between the militants and the Kurdish rebels who are holding some jihadis captive.

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