new video loaded: How the Assad Regime Built a Mass Grave in Syria
By Charlie Smart, Melanie Bencosme, Gabriel Blanco, David Jouppi, James Surdam and Valentina Caval•July 7, 2025
Months after President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to understand how the Assad regime hid the bodies of the people it had made disappear.