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Al-Mousa acted as a media activist and organizer of nonviolent protests during the early period of the uprising against the Assad regime, Al-Mousa was arrested by Syrian authorities four times in 2011-2012. Al-Mousa also was arrested by Ahrar Al Sham in 2013. In 2013, Al-Mousa was shot in the left
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While in high-school, Hamoud became active in the Syrian revolution and started filming the protests in the streets of Raqqa. He later embedded with the Free Syrian Army as they fought to liberate Raqqa from Assad's forces. When ISIS took over his hometown in 2014, he became a vocal critic of the
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his father, Mohamed Al-Mousa, later publicly releasing a video showing the execution. A few months later, Hamoud learned that one of his brothers had also been assassinated by ISIS while another brother has disappeared. Now living in exile, Hamoud is determined to continue his work with RBSS. He
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RBSS documents life under ISIS on social media and through photographs and videos that are smuggled abroad. Al-Mousa, like most exiled RBSS members, lived in
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leg by Lewaa Thwaar Al-Raqqa they were with Al Nusra. After ISIS took over Raqqa in
January 2014, Al-Mousa escaped to Turkey, where he and other journalists founded RBSS. Threats from the Islamic State in Turkey caused him to flee to Germany then to the USA.
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terrorist organization and helped found RBSS. ISIS eventually put a bounty out for Hamoud and he was forced to leave Raqqa. After ISIS was unable to track Hamoud down, they instead
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