Syria's Post-Assad Government Begins Documenting Disappeared Persons

Syria's National Commission for Missing Persons has confirmed the deaths of six children from the al-Abbasi family, forcibly disappeared by Assad's security forces in 2013. The commission uses verification methods similar to truth commissions in Argentina and the Balkans. With tens of thousands of documented cases, this work signals the new government's commitment to investigating systematic enforced disappearance—a defining tactic of the former regime.