RIA Novosti
Friday 8th March, 2013
UNITED NATIONS, March 8 (RIA Novosti) – The Syrian government says it is trying to free UN peacekeepers taken hostage by insurgent fighters last week in the disputed Golan Heights region with no outside help, Syria’s representative at the UN, Bashar Jafari, said on Friday. Twenty-one UN peacekeepers from the buffer zone between Israel and Syria, all of them Filipino nationals, were taken hostage on Wednesday and are being held in the village of Jamlah. Syrian forces are shelling the village. “The Syrian government has taken on the task of freeing these hostages to put an end to this irrespon…
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