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Activist: Lives of 150 Christian hostages in danger
ISIS is holding 150 Assyrian Christians as hostages in Syria, and will threaten to kill them, says Osama Edward, founder of the Assyrian Human Rights Network.
Edward says ISIS has taken over some 35 Assyrian villages, forcing thousands of families to flee.
His organization put out the new estimate of Assyrian Christian hostages on Wednesday, and said ISIS is expected to release a message threatening to kill them.
The Assyrians were kidnapped early Monday from villages near Tal Tamer in northeastern Syria.
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Experts say ISIS has especially ramped up its efforts to lure young women — seen as potential brides for its fighters — into the territory under its brutal control in Syria and Iraq.
The key points:
— ISIS runs a powerful propaganda machine on social media
— ISIS promises the good life
— ISIS has a diffuse but efficient recruiting network
— ISIS is outwitting Western governments’ efforts
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