A Sharia court in north Syria has ordered the release of 29 Assyrian Christian hostages among more than 200 captured by the Sunni extremist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday, citing an Assyrian commander.
The Syrian Observatory said ISIS jurists told the commander that the fate of the other kidnapped Assyrians has yet to be decided by ISIS Sharia courts.
Accoding to CNN, the fate of the other kidnapped Assyrians has yet to be decided by ISIS Sharia courts.
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ISIS captured at least 220 Assyrians, all Christians, on February 23 during an attack on the villages around the town of Tal Tamer in the northern Syrian province of al-Hasakah.
