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         On the Front Line of IS-Controlled Assyrian Christian Villages

   by Zana Omer

   Assyrian Christian fighters are trying to hold ground against Islamic
   State forces, who have overrun several Assyrian Christian villages in
   Syria's Hassakeh province in recent days. Hundreds of Christians have
   been taken hostage in the latest act of IS religious and ethnic
   cleansing. From the front-line village of Tel Mekhas, still in Assyrian
   Christian hands, the VOA Kurdish service's Zana Omer reports.
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