One day before the arrest of Amjad Youssef—the perpetrator of the Tadamon massacre of April 2013—Syrian state media aired footage of transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Douma, standing hand in hand with Samir Kaakeh. Kaakeh, the sharia official of Jaish al-Islam, is the man implicated in the abduction, enforced disappearance, and likely murder of Samira al-Khalil, Razan Zeitouneh, Wael Hamadeh, and Nazem Hammadi, along with other crimes. T…
The arrest of Amjad Youssef, one of the alleged main perpetrators of the Tadamon massacre in Syria, is considered a turning point. Experts, however, warn: without shedding light on the chain of command, it remains just a symbolic step.