ALEPPO: At least 13 more Syrian Kurds have been abducted by foreign-backed militants in the Syrian province of Aleppo, taking the number of total abductees to 250.
According to a monitoring group with close links to the militants, at least 13 Kurds were kidnapped at a roadblock in the Sfeira region of Aleppo on Sunday and were handed over to an al-Qaeda-linked group, Al-Nusra Front, also known as Jabhat al-Nusra.
Around 250 Syrian Kurds have been kidnapped since the end of July by Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
On Sunday, Iran’s Kurdish lawmakers condemned the massacre and called for international action against the crime.
“The Majlis Kurdish lawmakers call on the human rights organization[s] and the UN chief to intervene and put an end to the massacre of the Syrian people, particularly the innocent people and civilians in Syria’s Kurdish regions,” Abed Fattahi, the head of the Sunni faction of Iran’s Majlis, said in an interview.
