Five Doctors Without Borders workers abducted in Syria (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw18QxQnZ6CgZcQZhNczSIc1EzM8NxQJaKQNIYfLgqD5WFtbF_VzvLEApBf1JkUPOYwLTB5Nm8F6vJEdQynJSdBct74__V1ViWZTdNG2ioUbpfQzSvplH2s0ruCnJNOMW67tt_dvgrlNM/s1600/131215125555-01-syria-unrest-1215-horizontal-gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw18QxQnZ6CgZcQZhNczSIc1EzM8NxQJaKQNIYfLgqD5WFtbF_VzvLEApBf1JkUPOYwLTB5Nm8F6vJEdQynJSdBct74__V1ViWZTdNG2ioUbpfQzSvplH2s0ruCnJNOMW67tt_dvgrlNM/s320/131215125555-01-syria-unrest-1215-horizontal-gallery.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong> -- Five workers for Doctors Without Borders were abducted from a house the organization was using in northern Syria, the group said Friday.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The five were abducted Thursday evening "by a group allegedly for questioning," said Guillermo Agar, a Doctors Without Borders representative. He passed along the group's statement to CNN in an e-mail from his base in Madrid.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rebel forces and Islamic militants control much of Syria's northern territories.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We are in contact with all the relevant stakeholders and the families of our staff members, and are doing all we can to reestablish contact with our colleagues," the statement said. He said that he does not know all the nationalities of the workers and would not release more information, citing safety concerns for the workers.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres, operates six hospitals and four health centers in northern Syria and has been trying to help Syrian refugees who have fled the violence that has gripped the country since the war began in April 2011.</div></div>

Five Doctors Without Borders workers abducted in Syria (BLOG)

(CNN)  -- Five workers for Doctors Without Borders were abducted from a house the organization was using in northern Syria, the group said F...

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