ISIS has kidnapped 700 people, including dozens of women and children, from a refugee camp in eastern Syria, and will 'kill ten hostages every day' unless their demands are met, Vladimir Putin said today. ISIS fighters attacked the refugee camp in Syria's Deir-al Zor province last week, and kidnapped some 130 families, including several U.S. and European nationals, who may be foreign fighters or aid workers. Images shared on social media by terrorist monitoring groups allegedly shows ISIS fighters attacking and kidnapping fighters from the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the same area the day before. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors Syria's ongoing civil war, said the families are mostly made up of foreign women, including widows of ISIS fighters. The SDF said in a statement that the fighting in the Hajin refugee camp on October 13 which resulted in the kidnapping, had left 20 ISIS gunmen and 'several' SDF fighters dead.

Source: Daily Mail October 18, 2018 13:43 UTC