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20 Saudi militants killed in Syria army op
Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:46AM GMT

At least 20 Saudi militants have been killed in a military operation by the Syrian army against the al-Qaeda-linked groups of Jaysh al-Islam and al-Nusra Front in the industrial town of Adra, northwest of the capital, Damascus.
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Syrian army surrounded the town, strategically located on a main road to the capital, after the terrorists fighting against the government infiltrated the area earlier this week and killed dozens of civilians, most Alawites and Druze, in what appeared to be a sectarian massacre.
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Syria: al-Qaida-linked rebels kidnap 120 Kurds, monitoring group says
Civilians were taken from, Ihras, close to the Turkish border, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

The Guardian, Friday 13 December 2013 18.40 GMT

Islamist rebels linked to al-Qaida have kidnapped at least 120 Kurdish civilians from a village near the Turkish border in Aleppo province, according to a monitoring group.
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The incident is the latest in a series of kidnappings and killings by Isil this month targeting Kurds in northern Syria, where mainly Sunni Arab Islamist rebels and Kurdish fighters have clashed repeatedly in recent months.
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