PROTESTERS have held daily demonstrations against jihadists in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, demanding the release of "hundreds" of missing people including an Italian Jesuit priest, a watchdog said on Monday.

News of the protests comes two weeks after Father Paolo Dall'Oglio went missing when he went to meet commanders of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in late July to ask for the release of activists kidnapped by the group.

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