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June 5, 2014

Rebel Group Kidnaps Kurdish Students in Northern Syria 
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In other news from Syria, more than 150 Kurdish students are being held
captive following their kidnapping by rebels in a northern province last
week. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is said to be holding the
students at a prison in the town of Manbij. It is one the worst mass
kidnappings in Syria's three-year civil war.

 

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