Activist: ISIS Now Holds 262 Christians Hostages In Syria

[Purveyor]

(CNN)ISIS has seized even more Assyrian Christian hostages after taking over nearly a dozen Assyrian villages in northeastern Syria in the past few days, an activist said Thursday.

The Sunni extremist group now holds 262 Assyrians captive, said Osama Edward, founder of the Assyrian Human Rights Network.

"ISIS is taking over more and more Assyrian towns," he said.

The number has climbed steadily, from an initial estimate of between 70 and 100 people seized on Monday to 150 as of Wednesday, with women, children and the elderly among them.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the number of Assyrian hostages seized over three days at 220, in a statement released Thursday.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/26/middleeast/isis-syria-iraq/

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Stoking the war flames...

What are we going to need to do to stop these insane warmakers? Honestly, what? They literally are so addicted to war that they are not going to stop until everyone is dead, then they will kill each other off. For the survival of mankind and life on earth these warmakers must be stopped. How?

[Purveyor]

3. As much as I hate it, I see no other solution except well equipped ground troops

and a lot of them.

They have to be eradicated from one region at a time by whatever means possible.

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. War NEVER creates peace, NEVER! War begets war begets more war begets more war.

[Purveyor]

6. Just learn to live with ISIL then I guess as there is no other option. eom

[Dont call me Shirley]

8. We MUST create a way of melting the hardened-wax hearts and minds of humanity. War only

creates more hardened minds and hearts. We must create a new way of generating compassion and care for one another. War only creates hatred, vengeance and more murder. We must begin to create honor for life, belief in life, sacredness of life, instead of generating never ending misery and deathworship. This is the ONLY way, compassion-care-honor-respect-generosity-love for life. We must develop a do no harm way of life, that is the only way. We must generate kindness, gentleness and nurturing, this is the only way.

War/violence/hatred is always the wrong way.

The only real way is the path of Compassion, Love and Truth.

[99Forever]

7. Well then....

... Sounds like a perfect job for Saudi Arabia. Have at it.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

4. Why doesn't Syria

do something?

[leftynyc]

2. The men will be killed

and the women and children sold into slavery. That group of vermin labeled isis is barely human.