QARYATAYN, Syria—Twenty-six Syrian hostages who escaped from their ISIS captors received an emotional homecoming on Oct. 29 in the central province of Homs, witnesses and officials said.
They were among at least 70 people abducted and taken by fleeing ISIS terrorists to a secret location in the desert east of the town of al-Qaryatayn when the Syrian army and pro-government militias regained control of the town on Oct. 21.





