On Thursday, The Syrian Council for Human Rights reported that Shibli al-Ayssami, a leading Syrian opposition member and one of the original founders of the Syrian Baath Party, who fled Syria when Hafez al-Assad father of the present Syrian president Bashar al Assad took over in 1970—went missing amid “mysterious circumstances.” from the town of Aley , Lebanon on Tuesday afternoon.

He reportedly arrived in Lebanon on May 19 with his Syrian wife from the US to spend the summer in Aley , a mjaor summer resort in Mt lebanon, where his married daughter lives resides. No one knows where Ayssami is, and all authorities contacted by his family were unable to deliver any information on his whereabouts.