Islamists kidnap 300 Kurds in Syria: Kurdish officials

[Bosonic]

Source: AFP

Beirut (AFP) - Islamist fighters on Monday kidnapped some 300 Kurdish civilians at a checkpoint in northwestern Syria, Kurdish officials and a local journalist told AFP.

It was not immediately clear which group was responsible for the kidnapping, though Kurdish officials accused Al-Qaeda's affiliate Al-Nusra Front, which is active in Idlib province.

"A group of 300 people on five coaches and a mini-bus coming from Afrin were kidnapped at a checkpoint as they went to Aleppo to collect their salaries," said Newaf Khalil, a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).

The kidnapping was confirmed by a second official from the PYD, the main Kurdish party in Syria, and a journalist in Afrin, who said the women in the group had been freed but the men and children taken.

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[samsingh]

1. i feel so sad for the Kurds. they are continually brutalized and murdered by the islamists

[cosmicone]

2. Poor kurds

they get attacked from all sides

[oberliner]

3. Do you think the Kurdish people should have their own independent state?

Might that be a step in the right direction or no?