Al Qaeda kidnaps 300 Kurds in Syria, Syrian official says
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Al Qaeda militants kidnapped 300 Kurdish men in northern Syria Monday, a Kurdish official said.
Extremists from al Qaeda’s Syrian wing-- called the Nusra front—took the men Sunday evening as they were headed to Aleppo and the capital, Damascus from the town of Afrin, which is under Kurdish control.
``They left women and children but they kidnapped 300 men and young people,'' Idris Nassan, an official in the Kobani area told Reuters.
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``They captured them in Tuqad village, (12 miles) west of Aleppo and then they moved them to al-Dana town in Idlib province,'' Nassan added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights group-- which monitors the conflict from Britain-- said Kurds were kidnapped but the number of victims was unclear.
The Nusra Front has not claimed responsibility for the mass kidnapping.
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Kurdish militia and Islamic extremists have battled over territorial disputes in Syria during the four-year-long deadly civil war.