IS abducts women as “spoils of war” in northern Syria

Beirut, Nov 14 (EFE).- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, or SOHR, said Friday it can document the plight of six Syrian women who are being held captive by Islamic State, or IS, insurgents in northeastern Syria.

The London-based NGO said the six women were captured by the jihadists in Deir al-Zour province after an attack by IS militants against a Syrian military base late in July.

The women were the wives of Syrian military officers who were abducted from their homes inside the base, SOHR said.

Relatives of the six met with IS leaders in Raqqa province in an unsuccessful attempt to free them. The jihadists did, however, hand their captives’ children over to their families.

The observatory said that IS holding some 80 Syrian women in captivity, and that its fighters buy and sell among themselves many of the 300 girls and women of the minority Yazidi ethnicity who were taken as “war booty” when the IS overran parts of Syria and northern Iraq last summer.

The jihadists have proclaimed a “caliphate” in territories under their control.

 

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