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JIHADISTS kidnapped a Yazidi woman from Afrin in northern Syria and took her to Turkey, where she has been beaten and tortured while in prison, human rights campaigners said on Wednesday.
Ghazala Mannan Salmo was abducted by Faylaq al-Sham mercenaries last week from the Yazidi village of Basufan in the Sherawa district, the Human Rights Organisation of Afrin reported.
Also taken were Kurds from the villages of Baiyeh, Basofan, Kabashin and Burj Haydar. They are accused of planting a car bomb that killed the Islamist leader of the al-Hamza Brigade last December.
Anyone who criticises those in power in Kenya risks their freedom or worse. The brutal abduction of Booker Omole marks a new escalation in a country sliding toward authoritarian rule, says MARC VANDEPITTE
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER