Where are our kids? The ongoing search for Syria’s lost children

Where are our kids? The ongoing search for Syria’s lost children

More than a year has passed since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government, yet the file of children who were detained along with their parents or born in prison remains fundamentally unresolved. For more than a decade, Syria's security apparatus operated a deliberate system of child abduction: when dissidents and defectors were imprisoned, their children were seized and disappeared into a network of orphanages, according to Syrian officials. Ov…