American psychotherapist Majid Kamalmas was one of half a dozen Americans detained and killed in Syria by Bashar al-Assad's regime.

He led an NGO that treated young victims of the war in Bosnia, the tsunami in Indonesia, and Hurricane Katrina.

In 2017, he traveled to Damascus to pay respects after his father-in-law's death.

He never came home.

Only last year, his family learned that he died in prison, but his body has not been found.

His daughter, Mariam Kamomaz, recently met with the newly installed Syrian president,

Ahmed al-Shara, to discuss not only her father, but other Americans who've disappeared in Syria.

And Mariam Kalamaz joins me here.

Welcome. Thanks for being here.

Thank you for having me.

So I have to ask, because it was, as you mentioned, just over a year ago,

that you received confirmation of your father's death from the U.S. government.

Just tell us what that year has been like and also why you wanted to meet with Emma Dalshara.

It's been a very quiet year compared to my past years in the beginning up until the prison doors of Syria were opened.

We had been praying for this day to come, thinking maybe, just maybe he's still alive and he could be one of these detainees walking out. And we had a slight hopes that he could be. And we ran into an individual that resembled him tremendously. And we thought it could be him. And I could not sleep the night, just wishing and praying that it is him.

Unfortunately, then we learned the next day that this individual is picked up by his actual family.

We thought maybe under torture, under, you know, being in such harsh conditions for a long time that his features have changed.

But it wasn't him.

So that's actually the time that I really mourned his death, seeing the images and the people that are coming out.

I realized just to what extent the situation was and that he's really gone he didn't come out so that was the

hardest i'm so so sorry for you yeah and thank you and i had actually booked my ticket to go to

Syria um to search for my father and see what i can find and um the asked them on the call. I said, well, I actually

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