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University Professor Gets Student Rescued Out of ISIS Stronghold

University Professor Gets Student Rescued Out of ISIS Stronghold
An Iraqi Yazidi woman is pictured at Lalish temple in a valley near Dohuk, northwest of Baghdad, on October 5, 2018. Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images
Colin Fredericson
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A Swedish university professor coordinated the rescue of an Iraqi student and his family from the clutches of ISIS.

The rescue mission involved the school hiring armed mercenaries to find Firas Jumaah, a doctoral student at Lund University. Jumaah left the school and returned home in 2014 after his wife told him their town was being surrounded by ISIS terrorists, according to Fox News.

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