"Now, miles away from that most brutal prison, we are huddling around screens, our hearts suspended between hope and despair," Hiba Abdulhakim Qasawaad, a 24-year-old from the city of Homs ...

Those little redheaded boys became a symbol of both hope and despair. Even though they weren’t released in the months immediately after the attacks, we never gave up hope that they would return ...