Father Paolo Dall'Oglio, an
Italian Jesuit priest who was kidnapped in Syria in 2013, is
alive and in being held in one of the pockets of territory still
controlled by ISIS, The Times reported on Thursday citing
Kurdish sources.
The British daily said that the extremist Islamist group is
using Dall'Oglio and two other Western hostages, British
journalist John Cantlie and a nurse from New Zealand, as
"bargaining chips" in negotiations with with the US-backed
Kurdish-Arab forces surrounding them.
It said that the ISIS group holding the three are seeking to
"escape annihilation".
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