In 2013, while working on a farm cutting firewood, Hussein Abdo Qarajah, a native of the village of Al-Matras in the Safita countryside, was arrested by a group of shabiha led by Basil Breidi, with the participation of pro-Assad militants from Ain al-Sahen and neighboring villages. Hussein...

In August 2013, Ahmed al-Youssef (born in 1997) was on his way home to the al-Duwaileh neighborhood of Damascus when he was kidnapped by members of the National Defense Militia, one of the most prominent arms of the fallen regime in its repression of civilians, led by Fadi Saqr. From the...

Zaman al-Wasl publishes photos of more than 200 detainees, including children, who were clearly photographed after being detained for a period of time at several checkpoints belonging to the National Defense Forces (NDF), the paramilitary forces then supporting the fallen Assad regime in...

On a single day in 2013, the unknown swallowed the couple Fahed Al-Fandi and Hanan Al-Marzouqi without a trace. Hanan was standing in Marjeh Square in central Damascus, while Fahed was in the besieged Yarmouk camp, when all news of them was cut off. Since then, no one has known their fate,...