How Syria's dictatorship used a global child welfare charity to 'disappear' children | BBC News

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BBC Eye Investigations in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports uncovers how Syria's Assad regime used a global childcare charity to aid the disappearance of hundreds of children. We follow the journey of Reem al-Kari to find her son Karim Turjman - one of 3,700 children who went missing during Syria’s civil war from 2011 to 2024. During her search for her child, she finds out how hundreds of children were held in orphanages by the regime in order to extort their relatives, and why many have