ISIS militants abduct scores of civilians in eastern Syria
BEIRUT - The Islamic State group stormed a settlement for displaced people in eastern Syria and abducted scores of civilians in the latest attack by the extremists on civilians, a US-backed Syrian force and a war monitor said on Saturday.
The area in Syria's eastern Deir el-Zour province has been witnessing days of intense clashes between ISIS and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces amid bad weather and low visibility.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors Syria's war, said as many as 130 families were abducted by the extremists. The Observatory warned that IS might kill them.
The Observatory said the families are mostly made up of foreign women, including widows of IS members who had been killed earlier in the Syrian war.
