A year after Assad's fall, families of missing detainees languish without answers


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  • Monday, 08 Dec 2025

A drone view shows residents of Hama gathering during a protest to mark the first anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, in Hama, Syria December 5, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hassano

DAMASCUS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A year after dictator Bashar al-Assad's ouster in Syria, little has changed in Amina Beqai's desperate quest. She types her missing husband's name yet again into an internet search box, hoping for answers to a 13-year-old question. In vain.

Beqai has nowhere else to turn.

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