MESSAGE FROM OUR LEADERS
Since the fall of the Assad Regime on December 8th 2024, the Syrian Emergency Task Force’s mission has never been more focused on a prosperous, democratic, and united Syria. We have transitioned to achieving our mission by working at the intersection of Justice, Media outreach, advocacy, and Humanitarian support to help Syrians shape a future rooted in freedom and dignity. Our work during 2025 has produced real, tangible, and inspirational results. We were successful in repealing our Caesar Act, facilitated high-level engagement between the US and Syria, and supported and facilitated major war crimes prosecutions on American soil. On the ground, we identified dozens of mass grave sites, completely repatriated the internally displaced families from Rukban camp, and rebuilt the Wisdom House Kindergarten in its original site that was destroyed by the Assad regime. Our communications team generated well over two hundred major international media stories, keeping Syria visible and fixing Syria’s image in the United States and the world. We brought the Jewish community back to Syria, removed thousands of landmines, and helped families find their missing loved ones and find justice for those they lost. None of these accomplishments would be possible without you. Your support has carried us through the darkest days and helped us remain as a glimmer of hope and light to those most oppressed and forgotten. Today, your support is more vital than ever; together, we can continue to be part of history as we transition from a victorious revolution to a democratic Syria that would make the whole world a better place.
Mouaz Moustafa – Executive Director
2025 is the first year since the Syrian Emergency Task Force was founded in 2011, that Syria has been generally at rest – AND what a year it was. Before the Dec. 8, 2024, fall of the Assad Regime, SETF was focused on saving Syrian lives from the war, but after the fall of the Regime, SETF has been pulled in many different important ways, as highlighted in the Annual Report. The pace and impact of this last year have been intense and strategic. Everything from getting sanctions released to getting the Syrian Jewish American community reconnected with their Jewish legacy in Damascus to working with Syrians and Americans who lost loved ones in Syrian military prisons to gain visibility and compensation. SETF has always been there – fully committed to a free and democratic Syria – non-stop. Speaking for the SETF Board of Directors, it has been an honor and a unique opportunity to focus all of our energies to support the new Syrian government’s ability to overcome years of repression and war to rebuild Syria and provide hope for the coming year, but you can count on SETF to remain fully committed to all Syrians going forward. We have much ahead of us in the future of Syria.
Jerry Adams – Chair of SETF Board of Trustees
