JDEIDET YABUS: A group of nuns kidnapped in a Syrian village were freed on Monday, part of a rare prisoner swap in a three-year war whose brutality is highlighted in a new Amnesty report.
Jihadists seized the 13 nuns and three maids on December 3 from the famed Christian village of Maalula—where residents still speak the ancient Aramaic of Jesus Christ—and took them to the nearby town of Yabrud.
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