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ISTANBUL: Radicals in Syria holding 150 students abducted on way to final exams - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com

Radicals in Syria holding 150 students abducted on way to final exams
By Mitchell Prothero
McClatchy Foreign Staff

ISTANBUL -- About 150 Kurdish students were kidnapped last week by the radical Islamist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and they remain in a prison in the ISIS-held town of Manbij in northern Syria, adding to what’s quickly becoming one of the worst mass kidnapping incidents of the Syrian civil war.

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