Jihadists free 70 kidnapped students in Syria: monitor

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The Islamic State jihadist group on Tuesday freed more than 70 Kurdish school children it kidnapped in northern Syria in May, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

There were no immediate details on why the group decided to free the children, who were among a group of some 153 students it abducted on May 29 as they returned from the northern city of Aleppo after taking school exams. -AFP