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October 15, 2025

Reuters: Assad Regime Moved Mass Graves to Cover Up Killings
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A new investigation by Reuters has concluded the former Syrian regime of
Bashar al-Assad secretly moved tens of thousands of bodies to hide
evidence of mass killings. Between 2019 and 2021, the Syrian government
removed bodies from a mass grave in al-Qutayfah and then reburied them
in a secret site in the desert east of Damascus. The project was done as
Assad attempted to regain his international standing.


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