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  • October 14, 2022

    New Brief Explores How ISIS Prosecutions Can Support the Search for the Missing in Syria

    Evidence uncovered in the prosecution of ISIS affiliates can be invaluable in the search for missing people in Syria.

  • ISIS detention center
    April 21, 2022

    SJAC Exposes Web of Disappearance, Locating Over 150 ISIS Prisons

    “Unearthing Hope” is the most comprehensive study of the ISIS detention apparatus available, with an updated companion map.

  • Psychologist Ensaf Nasr’s husband was kidnapped from a maternity centre in Deir Ezzor in 2014
    September 3, 2021

    “Never has a letter held such hope and expectation”

    After years of searching for answers, 1001 Syrian families have come together to write to the US Government asking for their help to find their sons, daughters, husbands, brothers and sisters who were kidnapped by ISIS when the extremist group had control over a third of Syria.

  • Necklace worn by a Syrian who was kidnapped by ISIS on the day he went missing. His siblings later had a matching image tattooed on their hands.
    September 2, 2021

    1,001 families of those kidnapped by ISIS ask for assistance from the United States

    When the U.S. and its allies defeated the terrorist group in March 2019, we hoped that information about our family members would follow. But we still haven’t heard about any strategies or attempts to find or return those who were abducted.

  • First Responders
    May 17, 2021

    New map shows international effort needed to find the missing

    Map of former ISIS prisons and mass graves in Syria shows the huge scale of the search for the people kidnapped by ISIS.

  • Yasmin
    February 11, 2021

    My Life Under ISIS: a story of terror and resistance

    My city in Syria was taken over by ISIS in 2014. After my brother was kidnapped, I decided to become an undercover citizen journalist and risked my life to tell the world about the crimes ISIS was committing.

  • Mona
    November 13, 2020

    I escaped Raqqa after I was personally targeted by ISIS

    “My neighbours were the ones who saved me. They came in because they heard the noise, and told me to climb out onto the roof to escape.”

  • Samar and Mohamad were kidnapped by ISIS
    November 6, 2020

    Maisa and Samar’s story

    Maisa’s sister Samar was kidnapped by ISIS in 2013. Her family still don’t know what happened to her. When victory was declared over ISIS, efforts to find the kidnapped stopped. But it’s not an option for families to stop their search.

  • Syrian Democratic Forces issue general amnesty to a number of detained ISIS fighters
    November 5, 2020

    Syrian Democratic Forces issue general amnesty to detained ISIS fighters

    Starting on October 15, the SDF released 631 detainees from Alaya Prison and 289 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Al-Hol. Families of Syrians disappeared by ISIS fear that vital information is being lost.

  • October 27, 2020

    Yasmin and Bashar’s story

    I’m from the city of Mohassan in Deir Ezzour, which we call ‘the village’, and that is how it remains in my eyes. Before we heard about ISIS and before they announced the Caliphate. Today all I want is help to find answers about Bashar and over 8300 Syrians who were kidnapped by ISIS.

Searching for Truth After ISIS is a campaign calling for urgent steps to uncover the fate of thousands of Syrians who were kidnapped by ISIS, to give answers to their families and seek justice for these crimes. The Syria Campaign takes your privacy seriously in accordance with our privacy policy.

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