Mustefa Ebdi, a friend and journalist, traced their journey back to the capital of war-ravaged Syria and said the family had been forced to move several times within their own country before leaving for good.
The company's most dangerous regular destination is Mogadishu, the lawless capital of war-hit Somalia, whose colourful markets, spectacular beaches and picturesque colonial Italian waterfront outweigh, for some, the more or less constant risk of terror attacks, opportunist shootings and kidnappings.
Earlier this week in the capital of war-weary South Sudan, the Associated Press reported that a female aid worker stared down the barrel of an AK-47 while a soldier threatened, "Either you have sex with me, or we make every man here rape you and then we shoot you in the head".
It was Tito's capital of post-war Yugoslavia, then Slobodan Milošević's Serbian capital, bombed by Nato in 1999.
The former Netherlands midfielder believes sport can provide relief from the problems endured in the capital of the war-torn southern Russian republic of Chechnya.
The fighting appeared to be the heaviest in Mogadishu, the capital of this war-weary country, since an attack by the Shabab, one of the Islamist groups, shook the city during Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month that ended two weeks ago.
The families of Darren Hickey, Rudi Petschi and Stan Shaw allege that Granger Telecom of Weybridge, Surrey, was grossly negligent in sending the men to Grozny, capital of the war-torn breakaway Soviet republic, in September 1998.
With that resigned acceptance that you still commonly find in older Huddersfielders - that Truth will only be known in the Next World - he would quietly say that the town was the national capital of anti-war feeling and genuine toleration of it by those who disagreed; and he would leave it that.
Or is it just me?" This was one of the very first tweets about the January 18 multiple terrorist attacks in the heart of the central capital of the war-torn country.
On Thursday evening, exiled Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi arrived in Aden, the temporary capital of the war-wrenched country, saying: "The hour of victory is close and the return of justice is nearing that will lead to the triumph of the will of the Yemeni people".
Gen. Johnson Olony surrounded Wau Shilluk, located along the White Nile River about a half-hour north of Malakal, the capital of the war-torn and oil-rich Upper Nile state, and forced scores of children to join their ranks, according to the UN children's rights organization UNICEF.
