On Dec. 9, 2013, gunmen stormed the Violation Documentation Center in Douma, northeast of Damascus, and took Razan Zaitouneh, her husband Wael Hamadeh, Samira Khalil and Nazem Hammadi. Advertisement ...

A few dozen protesters gathered in the Syrian city of Douma on Wednesday demanding answers about the fate of four prominent activists abducted more than a decade ago.

Activists say Douma came under intense aerial bombardment ... The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said air strikes on 6 and 7 April killed almost 100 people.

At the time, Douma was held by rebels. There has been no sign of life nor proof of death since they were abducted. Zaitouneh was one of Syria’s most prominent human rights activists, in part ...

Her husband is also a renowned human rights activist who was detained in 1980 and forced to live abroad for years. Protesting was unthinkable just a month ago in Douma, a former rebel stronghold ...

(MENAFN) In the Syrian city of Douma, a few dozen demonstrators gathered ... and Nazem Al-Hammadi from the office of a human rights organization they co-led in the then-rebel-held city outside ...

Assad's regime, Russia lost a key all in the Middle East - but it still hopes to keeps its military bases in Syria.

The center was set up in 2011 to monitor human rights violations in Syria. At the time, Douma was held by rebels. There has been no sign of life or proof of death since they were abducted.

Tawfiq Diam is emotional because it's the first time he's been able to speak freely about what happened to his family back in 2018, in Douma in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus. "If I'd spoken ...