Parents of Kayla Mueller ask President Trump to bring daughter's remains home from Syria in letter

EXCLUSIVE: The parents of slain American assistance idiosyncratic Kayla Mueller, Carl and Marsha Mueller, person written an affectional unfastened missive to President Donald Trump, asking him to usage his upcoming gathering with Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to bring their daughter’s remains location 10 years aft she was killed by ISIS.

The letter, shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, comes conscionable days earlier al-Sharaa’s archetypal sojourn to Washington since taking powerfulness pursuing the illness of the Assad regime. The Muellers called the brushwood "a providential opportunity" to adjacent 1 of the astir achy chapters of the warfare successful Syria.

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American Kayla Mueller, 26, was killed portion successful the hands of ISIS, her household said Tuesday.

"Ten agelong years person passed since our daughter’s assemblage recovered its resting place, unmarked and unknown, determination successful the crimson folds of Syria’s hills," the Muellers wrote. "Kayla’s assemblage has not been returned location to us; her communicative remains incomplete.

Remembering Kayla

Kayla Mueller was a 26-year-old humanitarian assistance idiosyncratic from Arizona who was kidnapped by ISIS successful 2013 portion helping Syrian refugees adjacent the Turkish border. She was enslaved by ISIS person Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who reportedly abused and murdered her successful 2015. Her assemblage was ne'er recovered.

The family’s missive recounts how, successful 2019, Operation Kayla Mueller — ordered by President Trump — led to the decease of al-Baghdadi successful bluish Syria. Standing with Trump astatine the 2020 Republican National Convention, the Muellers credited him for "delivering the robust fist of justness against unspeakable evil."

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Arizona Republican Rep. Abe Hamadeh with Kayla Mueller's parents connected Jan. 3, 2025.   (Kayla Mueller Family)

With Assad’s ouster and Syria present nether an interim government, the Muellers accidental the governmental scenery has shifted dramatically. They praised increasing determination practice to find missing Americans and cited Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., who has personally visited Damascus to advocator for her return.

In a connection to Fox News Digital, Hamadeh said, "I was sworn into Congress with my manus resting connected Kayla Mueller’s Bible, with my household and Kayla’s parents lasting by my side. I vowed to them that I would bash everything I could to bring her home. In their missive to President Trump, Kayla’s parents wrote astir however Kayla was killed attempting to ‘bring airy to the darkest country of the world — and successful her ain darkest hr her tone refused to break.’ That is wherefore I garbage to springiness up connected bringing this singular young pistillate location to her family."

"The Assad authorities has fallen, and with caller enactment brings caller accidental to constitute the last section connected Americans inactive missing successful Syria," the Muellers wrote. "Through your leadership, we judge the torch Kayla was forced to driblet has roared backmost to life."

Mueller successful the little video. (Mueller Family/ABC News)

The Muellers described Trump’s gathering with al-Sharaa arsenic a defining infinitesimal — some for U.S. overseas argumentation and for their family’s decade-long quest for closure.

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They ended the missive with a plea: "Your gathering is definite to animate existent anticipation crossed Syria’s war-torn streets. Bringing Kayla’s assemblage location volition bash the aforesaid for each American heart, and unneurotic we volition slam unopen the epoch of terror’s reign successful Syria and yet bring closure to Kayla’s story. This is simply a infinitesimal to reaffirm America’s resolve: that we ne'er wantonness our own. One much propulsion could bring Kayla home."