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Undated picture released by the family of Javier Espinosa shows the Spanish journalist, who was kidnapped in Syria in September, sitting at his home in Beirut, Lebanon. Espinosa was bureau chief of El Mundo in the Middle East with 25 years of front line reporting. He and Ricardo Garcia-Vilanova, an award-winning freelance photographer, were both abducted on 16 September, 2013 at a check-point near Tal-Abyad, in northern Syria. They were taken to facilities belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Raqqa. (AP Photo/Family of Javier Espinosa)

News media urges Syria rebels to halt abductions

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 11, 2013 | Media

Beirut, AP—Major international news organizations sent a letter to the leadership of the armed opposition in Syria on Wednesday, calling for urgent action against rebel groups increasingly targeting journalists for kidnappings. The letter, signed by 13 news...

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A combo shows an undated file picture obtained on February 29, 2012 of El Mundo daily newspaper correspondent Javier Espinosa (L) and a family handout image dated August 9, 2011 of Spanish freelance photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, distributed on December 10, 2013 in Beirut. (AFP PHOTO/ EL MUNDO /FAMILY HANDOUT)

Families of 2 Spanish journalists detained in Syria plea for their release

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 10, 2013 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported on Tuesday that one of its journalists, Javier Espinosa Robles, and freelance photographer Ricardo García Vilanova had been kidnapped by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on September 16....