Spanish journalists freed in Syria

Two Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria six months ago by rebel fighters have been released. Spanish newspaper El Mundo said its Middle East correspondent, Javier Espinosa, had phoned the newsroom to say that he had been freed along with photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova. Mr Espinosa said they had been handed over to Turkish soldiers. Scores of journalists are believed to have been kidnapped or killed by rebel fighters in Syria. Mr Espinosa and Mr Vilanova were seized by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) near the Turkish border in September. El Mundo said at the time the two journalists had been trying to leave Syria at the end of a two-week reporting mission when they were taken, according to BBC.