Caught in limbo, families of Syria’s missing cling to hope

In this July 26, 2019 photo, schoolteacher Suzan Suleiman hugs and kisses her son Youssef, 6, during an interview in Homs, Syria. Six months after he was snatched from a road in central Syria, Iyad Suleiman, a father of three, was allowed by his kidnappers to make a Skype video call home. His children were startled at how he looked skinny and exhausted, with a long beard. That two-minute call in September 2013 was the last Suleiman’s family saw of him. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

HOMS, Syria — Six months after he was snatched from a road in central Syria, Iyad Suleiman was allowed by his kidnappers to make a Skype video call home. His children were startled at how he looked — skinny and exhausted, with a long beard. He told his wife to keep talking with his captors and Syrian officials to win his freedom.

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