Syria opens criminal investigation into Assad-era mass grave revealed by Reuters
The site, in the Dhumair desert east of Damascus, was used during Assad’s rule as a military weapons depot, according to a former Syrian army officer with knowledge of the operation.
A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair, February 27, 2025. A Reuters investigation found that the Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies there from an exposed mass grave in the Damascus suburb of Qutayfah from 2019-2021.(photo credit: REUTERS/KHALIL ASHAWI)ByREUTERS, SETH J. FRANTZMANUpdated:
