IS frees most of 300 abducted cement workers, kills 4
BEIRUT — The Islamic Accompaniment accumulation has appear a lot of of the 300 adhesive workers it abducted abreast Damascus afterwards analytic them to acquisition out who were Muslims and killing four who were associates of the boyhood Druze sect, a Syrian action ecology accumulation and a account bureau affiliated to the extremists appear Saturday.The letters came two canicule afterwards IS abducted the adhesive workers and contractors from al-Badia Adhesive Company in Dumeir, just northeast of the capital, afterwards a abruptness advance on government forces.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said all those abducted accept been appear except for 30 humans who were guards at the adhesive factory. It said the fate of the 30 is unknown.
The IS-affiliated Aamaq account bureau said a lot of of the 300 were appear afterwards analytic to actuate their adoration and whether they abutment the government. It said four workers who belonged to the boyhood Druze camp were dead and 20 pro-government gunmen are still getting held.
The Druze, a 10th aeon adjunct of Shiite Islam, fabricated up about 5 percent of Syria's pre-war citizenry of 23 actor people. Lebanon and Israel aswell accept ample Druze communities.
IS, a Sunni Muslim agitator group, considers all Shiites to be heretics admirable death.
Aamaq aswell appear a video from central the adhesive plant, about 28 afar (45 kilometers) northeast of Damascus, assuming trucks and bulldozers in the sprawling facility. Some fighters could be apparent inside.
Government armament and insurgents meanwhile clashed abreast Handarat, just arctic of the arctic city-limits of Aleppo, Syria's largest, activists said. In the western allotment of Aleppo province, troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters battled militants in Khan Touman and al-Ais, area insurgents endure anniversary dead added than two dozen Lebanese militants and government forces, according to activists and accompaniment media.
Elsewhere in arctic Syria, a abundance larboard abaft by IS abreast the Kurdish boondocks of Kobani dead at atomic four accouchement and blood-soaked several others backward Friday. The Observatory said four accouchement were dead and six blood-soaked if the abundance exploded in the apple of Darb Hassan. Accompaniment account bureau SANA said six accouchement were killed.
Kobani-based Kurdish official Idriss Naasan told The Associated Press that the accouchement were shepherds who took their sheep and goats to abrade in Darb Hassan on Friday. If they opened the aperture to a house, the abundance exploded, killing four accouchement and acid the rest. He added that one is believed to accept died of his wounds later.
Also in Syria's north, a chief official with al-Qaida's bounded annex appeared in a video during which he denied letters by accompaniment media that he was dead in the northwestern arena of Idlib. The Observatory aswell appear that Sheikh Abdullah al-Mheisny was not harmed.
"I will abide a arrow in your throat and my happiest day will be if I get martyred," al-Mheisny said in the video. The active was blood-soaked by a Russian airstrike in December in Latakia province.
A Saudi citizen, al-Mheisny had been angry in arctic Syria for months, confined both as a chief religious and aggressive administrator with the al-Qaida branch, accepted as the Nusra Front.
Several top Nusra Front commanders accept been afresh dead in Syria by U.S. airstrikes.
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