Japan Journalist Freed From Syrian Captivity Says He's Safe

Yasuda was kidnapped in 2015 by al-Qaida's branch in Syria, known at the time as the Nusra Front, after contact with him was lost in June that year. A war monitoring group said he was most recently held by a Syrian commander with the Turkistan Islamic Party, which mostly comprises Chinese [read: Uighur/Uyghur] jihadis in Syria.

You got jokes about Uighur "terrorists" and "concentration camps"? Obama got jokes.

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