US engaging with UN to ensure Syrians get answers, accountability for mass graves


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  • Wednesday, 18 Dec 2024

A drone view shows the site of a mass grave from the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, according to residents, after the ousting of al-Assad, in Najha, Syria, December 17, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is engaged with a number of United Nations bodies to ensure the Syrian people get answers and accountability when it comes to mass graves, detention sites and torture sites in Syria, the State Department said on Tuesday.

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller at a regular news briefing called for answers for the families of those who had been disappeared, tortured and killed in Syria and accountability for those who did it.

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