Hundreds of Syrian Christians flee Islamic State

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Hundreds of Christian families have fled a central Syrian town as Islamic State fighters advance toward it, activists said Saturday, the anniversary of the U.S. beginning airstrikes against the extremists in Iraq. Osama Edward, the director of the Christian Assyrian Network for Human Rights in Syria, said “hundreds of families” have fled the Christian town of Sadad toward the government-held central city of Homs and the capital, Damascus. This follows reports that the Islamic State group abducted 230 residents, including dozens of Christians, from the nearby town of Qaryatain which it captured Thursday. Activists say some Christians were released, though the fate of the others is still unknown.People are living in fear in the area.

  

A U.S.-led coalition has conducted nearly 6,000 airstrikes against the Islamic State, expanding its operations to target the extremists in Syria as well. But a year later, the group remains able to launch attacks across its self-declared “caliphate” in both countries, despite some gains by Kurdish fighters and allied Iraqi forces. Christians make up about 10 percent of Syria’s prewar population of 23 million people. Syria’s crisis, which began in March 2011, has killed more than 250,000 people and wounded more than 1 million.

Hundreds of Syrian Christians flee Islamic State