article_snippet: Members of Syria's Christian Assyrian community were among 
article_snippet: 220 people kidnapped by jihadis from a string of villages along the Khabur River in Hassakeh province last week.
article_snippet: Free: Members of Christian Assyrian community embrace Members of Christian Assyrian community relatives after being released by ISIS' .
article_snippet: Safe: 19 men and three women were packed on a bus in the ISIS-held town of Shaddadeh and arrived safely at the Church of the Virgin Mary the Virgin Mary in the nearby city of Hassakeh yesterday afternoon .
article_snippet: The fate of the more than 200 other Christian Assyrians still in ISIS' hands remains unclear.
article_snippet: An Assyrian Christian woman attends a mass in the Syrian capital Damascus yesterday in solidarity with the 220 people kidnapped from a string of villages along the Khabur River in Hassakeh last week .
article_snippet: Assyrian Christians attend a mass in solidarity with the people kidnapped last week .
article_snippet: Displaced Assyrian women, who fled their homes due to ISIS' attacks, take part in prayers at the Ibrahim al-Khalil Melkite Greek Catholic church in the Jaramana district on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus .
article_snippet: Most of Displaced Assyrian women, who fled their homes due to ISIS attacks are believed to have been taken by fighters to Shaddadeh, located 30 miles south of Hassakeh.
article_snippet: Diminished: Some 30,000 Assyrian Christians lived in Syria before the start of the civil war in 2011 .
article_snippet: Future: Syria's embattled Assyrian Christian community is one the world's oldest Christian groups .
highlights_snippet: Members of Syria's Christian Assyrian community were among 220 people kidnapped by jihadis in Hassakeh last week .
  