Dall'Oglio among ISIS hostages - report

(ANSA) - Rome, March 4 - Father Paolo Dall'Oglio, an Italian Jesuit priest who was kidnapped in Syria in 2013, is among the hostages being held in the last area of territory still controlled by ISIS in the south-east of the country, Vatican news agency reported on Monday citing Lebanese media reports based on Kurdish sources.
    Fides mentioned a report by Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, which is considered close to Hezbollah, which said Dall'Oglio was about to be released along with other Western and Kurdish hostages. Last month The Times reported the extremist Islamist group was using Dall'Oglio and two other Western hostages, British journalist John Cantlie and a nurse from New Zealand, as "bargaining chips" in negotiations with with the US-backed Kurdish-Arab forces surrounding them.