Syria: Focus New Working Group’s Efforts on ISIS Kidnappings

Expand Ayman’s mother holding up a photo of Ayman before he went missing. © San Serevan (Beirut) – A new working group to help find the thousands of detained and missing people in northeast Syria is an essential first step toward accountability for what happened to them, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities in northeast Syria and a United States-led military coalition should provide the working group with complete support and access to information to find what happened to people kidnapped by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS). On April 5, 2020, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic…

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