DAMASCUS, Syria — In the fall of 2018, Syrian security forces dragged a mother and her 2-year-old daughter, Hiba, from their home and detained them. The mother, Sukayna Jebawi, says that they were ...

As it tried to crush an uprising about a decade ago, the Assad regime ruling Syria faced a new problem - it had too many children in detention. An NPR investigation has found that intelligence agents ...

When the Syrian regime fell in December, its secrets began to emerge from the rubble. One of its darkest secrets: the forced disappearance of hundreds of children. They were taken from their parents ...

Hani al-Farra shared these images of his son and daughter, who went missing with his pregnant wife and their third child at a Syrian regime checkpoint in 2013. Al-Farra searched for them for years to ...