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AMMAN, July 29 (Reuters) – Al Qaeda-linked fighters in the
rebel-held eastern Syrian city of Raqqa on Tuesday abducted a
prominent Italian Jesuit priest who championed the uprising
against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
kidnapped father Paolo Dall’Oglio while he was walking in the
city, which had fallen under the control of militant Islamist
brigades, the sources in Raqqa province told Reuters.
Syrian authorities expelled Dall’Oglio from the country last
year after he helped victims of Assad’s military crackdown from
a monastery in the Anti-Lebanon mountains north of Damascus.
(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Amman newsroom; Editing by
Doina Chiacu)
