The self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) has released another 37 Assyrian Christians kidnapped nine months ago in Syria, Assyrian sources said.
The group, including men and women in their 60s and 70s, were among the 253 Christians snatched in IS attacks on Assyrian villages in north-eastern Syria’s Hassaka province.
Three thousand indigenous Assyrian Christians had been driven from their homes when the jihadists overran 35 villages on the Khabur River in Hassaka on 23 February.
