Escaped

Not everyone in those Christian villages of northern Syria was captured. We now have one family's story of escape.

Nuri lived with his wife and three children in Tel Tamer. He woke up before dawn last week and realized that "Daesh" had come (Arabic for IS). They were setting explosives on the bridge and shooting at the Iraqi army.

When he saw men, women, and kids being hauled onto trucks, he left off watching to wake up his family and hide them. As daylight came, they started walking east, getting an occasional ride in a truck. They eventually made it across the Iraq border to be with relatives. 

But 1400 families were not that lucky - after being run out of their villages, they're now homeless and sleeping on the floors of churches, schools and hospitals. They can't go home.  This is how "the Islamic State militants are using swift terrorist raids to empty this area of northern Syria of Christians."

I think a new "Label" category is called for but I'm not sure what it should be. IS War, maybe?

It's good to know about one family who escaped.