ISTANBUL — A rogue al Qaida offshoot abducted nearly 200 Kurdish villagers over the weekend in Syria’s Aleppo province, the latest sign of the growing conflict between primarily Arab Islamist rebels and an ethnic Kurdish militia that has established a de facto Kurdish state in northeastern Syria.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, drawing on reports from a network of activists in the area, said that fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria entered the village of al Qbasin and began abducting residents. Qbasin is on the outskirts of the ISIS-controlled town of al Bab in northeastern Syria,
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