Syria's Nusra Front extremists kidnap media activists in north of country

Syria’s extremist Nusra Front group seized two prominent media activists in the country’s north on Sunday, shutting down their radio station and burning rebel flags in the process.

The opposition radio station, Radio Fresh, said on its social media pages that Raed Fares and Hadi Abdullah were abducted by Nusra, al-Qaida’s Syrian affiliate, in an early morning raid in the town of Kafranbel.