article_snippet: (CNN)ISIS militants in northern Syria released 19 Assyrian Christian hostages on Sunday, according to Abdelrahman.
article_snippet: On Saturday, the Syrian Observatory -- citing an Assyrian commander -- said that ISIS planned to release 29 Assyrian Christian hostages.
article_snippet: ISIS captured at least 220 Assyrians, all Christians, on February 23 during an attack on the villages around the town of Tal Tamer in the northern Syrian province of al-Hasakah.
article_snippet: the Syrian Observatory said Saturday that a self-proclaimed ISIS court ordered the release, citing an Assyrian commander.
article_snippet: a self-proclaimed ISIS court" told an Assyrian commander that the fate of the other kidnapped Assyrians has yet to be decided by ISIS Sharia jurists.
article_snippet: the Syrian Observatory said the Syrian Observatory information indicates ISIS has taken 29 Assyrian Christian hostages to the Mount Abdelaziz area, southwest of Tal Tamer.
article_snippet: The founder of the Assyrian Human Rights Network, Osama Edward, puts the number of Assyrian hostages at more than 262.
article_snippet: the number of Assyrian hostages 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 children and the elderly.
article_snippet: the number of Assyrian hostages has also climbed steadily.
article_snippet: We in SOHR believe that the real number of people that had been killed by ISISISIS) is higher than the number documented by SOHR because there are hundreds of missing and detainees inside ISIS ISISjails, loss of communication with about 1,000 men of al-Shaitaat tribe, (and) dozens of Kurds who have still been missing" since ISIS attacked the Syrian town of Kobani in September.
highlights_snippet: ISIS captured Assyrian Christians in various villages in northern Syria .
  