WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Syrian Emergency Task Force is thrilled to announce that the bipartisan Countering Assad’s Proliferation Trafficking and Garnering of Narcotics (CAPTAGON) Act, included as an amendment within the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), was signed into…
According to the Tribal Council of Palmyra and Badia, two Syrian men, Moayad al-Obaid and Abdulaziz Al-Obaid, died under torture in the Assad regime’s notorious Sednaya prison. The military prison, located 30 kilometers north of Damascus, has allegedly tortured and…
Written By Lana Aldos Interviewer and Photographer: Mohamad Kazmooz It has been over 10 years since the start of the Syrian revolution. The consequence of this war forced millions to flee to neighboring countries, risk their lives and cross-seas to…
Written By Mouaz Moustafa At the start of 2022, a branch of the Letters of Hope program was opened at Haileybury Almaty, Kazakhstan (by two SETF interns Rabia and Selin). This began as a small extra curricular activity that a…
Written By Mouaz Moustafa Author: Lana Aldos Interviewer and photographer: Mohamad Kazmooz There are over 100,000 detainees in Assad’s prisons in Syria. For most war detainees, their only crime is demanding their freedom from a dictatorship that masks behind a…
I have not visited my home country in 12 years. When I think about Eastern Ghouta, I think about the swing my grandpa used to push me on as a 4-year-old- that Assad regime bombed and destoryed. If I were to…
