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Activists say IS group releases 37 Syrian Christian captives

ALBERT AJI ducted in February, activ- initially reported that the activist groups, as well as people are seen digging
Associated Press ists said. Thursday attack killed 25 the Islamic State, said the for survivors in the rub-
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Also Saturday, the Britain- people. attack was carried out by ble and holding children
Islamic State militants on based Syrian Observatory The Observatory, which re- Russian jets, targeting a soaked in blood.
Saturday released 37 Syr- for Human Rights said the lies on a network of activ- school and a popular mar- Russia began carrying out
ian Christians, mostly wom- death toll from an airstrike ists on the ground to moni- ket in Boukamal. In videos airstrikes in Syria on Sept.30,
en, who were among more on an IS-controlled eastern tor the war in Syria, said and pictures posted online further complicating a civil
than 200 people from the city near the border with at least six children were purportedly showing the war that is now in its fifth
Assyrian minority group ab- Iraq rose to 71. The group among the dead. Other aftermath of the airstrike, year.q

Police: Palestinian rams car into Israelis in West Bank

An Israeli soldier walks past the lifeless body of a Palestinian, officers, Israeli police said. into her purse to pull out In addition to stabbings,
right, who rammed his vehicle into a group of Israelis standing Police spokeswoman Luba a long-bladed knife and Palestinians have also car-
at a hitchhiking station, in the West Bank, near the Palestinian Samri said two of the Is- swings it in his direction as ried out shooting attacks
town of Nablus, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015. Four Israelis were raelis were moderately they both fall out of the and used vehicles to at-
wounded from the incident and the attacker was shot dead by wounded in the attack, frame. tack Israelis.
paramilitary officers, Israeli police said. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) the latest in nearly two Hours later, the military The bloodshed was trig-
months of violence across said an Israeli man showed gered by unrest at a major
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Pal- hiking station in the West the region. up at a West Bank check- Jerusalem shrine revered
estinian attacker rammed Bank Sunday, wounding Later, the Israeli military point with a wound to his by both Muslims and Jews,
his vehicle into a group of four of them before he was said a Palestinian woman stomach. He said he was and quickly spread to Isra-
Israelis standing at a hitch- shot dead by paramilitary stabbed a security guard stabbed while shopping in el, the West Bank and the
at the entrance to a West a Palestinian village. Gaza border.
Bank settlement. The Since mid-September, 12 Israel has blamed the vio-
guard was lightly wound- Israelis have been killed in lence on incitement by
ed and shot the woman, Palestinian attacks, most Palestinian political and
wounding her. of them stabbings, while religious leaders. Palestin-
Security camera foot- 74 Palestinians have been ians say the violence is
age showed the woman killed by Israeli fire, includ- rooted in a lack of hope
wearing a black, full- ing 47 who Israel said for gaining independence
length robe and a veil were involved in attacks after years of failed peace
over her hair chatting with or attempted attacks. The efforts. Also Sunday, Israeli
the guard and handing other 27 Palestinians were police said officers arrest-
over documentation. As killed in clashes between ed an Israeli youth who
he looks down to inspect stone-throwers and secu- attacked a human rights
her papers, she reaches rity forces. activist last month.q

Gunmen in Libya abduct 2 Serbian Embassy employees

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The embassy’s communi- The ministry is “doing all it tezica, who escaped un- news agency from Tunisia.
Gunmen in Libya crashed cations officer, Sladjana can to get more informa- harmed and was traveling “The attack happened
into a convoy of vehicles Stankovic, and driver Jo- tion and secure the return in the three-vehicle con- when one of the embassy
taking Serbia’s ambassa- vica Stepic, were kid- of our citizens in a very voy with his wife and two cars was hit from behind.
dor to neighboring Tunisia napped in the northwest complicated situation on sons aged 8 and 14, later When the driver came out
and then kidnapped two coastal town of Sabratha, the ground,” a statement recounted the attack. to check what happened,
other embassy employees, Serbia’s Foreign Ministry said. “It happened like in a mov- he was dragged into one
officials said. said. Ambassador Oliver Po- ie,” Potezica told Tanjug of the attackers’ cars.”q