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Special Syria Report: Syria: The Stolen Children of the Dictatorship / Syria: On the Trail of ISIS

S27 · E41 · 06 Dec 2025 · 53 min

For years, the Assad regime's intelligence service took thousands of children of opposition members and made them disappear. Asma al-Assad was responsible for these crimes against children and their families. / ISIS in Syria took advantage of the fall of the Assad regime at the end of 2024 and the security vacuum in the first weeks afterward: its members spread throughout the country.