(10 Dec 2013) The wife of a Spanish journalist kidnapped in Syria along with a freelance photographer appealed for their release on Tuesday.
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo said its Middle East bureau chief Javier Espinosa and freelance photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova were being held hostage in Syria by a group linked to al-Qaida.
El Mundo said they were taken captive on 16 September at a checkpoint near the northern town of Tal Abyad.
It said it had refrained from publicising the news previously because their families were trying to make discreet contact with the captors.
Espinosa's wife, Monica Prieto, appealed to the captors via the media on Tuesday, after weeks of attempted mediation had reached an impasse.
El Mundo said the two were taken along with four members of the Free Syrian Army rebel group at the Tal Abyad checkpoint in the northern province of Raqqa.
It identified the kidnappers as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria group known by its initials, ISIS.
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