Rania al-Abbassi, with her husband Abdelrahman Yassin, and five of their children, Dima, Intissar, Najah, Alaa, and Ahmad. Photo taken from the Facebook account of Hassan al-Abbassi, with his permission.
The news, feared for 13 years, came, cruelly, on May 30, 2026, a year and a half after the fall of Bashar al-Assad: the six children of dentist Rania al-Abbassi were killed.They were killed on March 11, 2013, the day the moukhabarat (Syrian intelligence) raided the family home around 8:30 a.m. in the Mashroua Dummar district of Damascus. The agents arrested Dima, 14, Intissar, 13, Najah, 11, Alaa, 8, Ahmad, 6, and Layane, 2, along with their mother. The children were coldly murdered two hours later in a regime detention center. Abbassi's fate remains unknown.Two days earlier, on March 9, 2013, their father, Abdelrahman Yassin, had been arrested by military intelligence officers. He was tortured and killed a month later. His body appeared in one of the 50,000 photographs smuggled out by dissident photographer Caesar. According to...
The news, feared for 13 years, came, cruelly, on May 30, 2026, a year and a half after the fall of Bashar al-Assad: the six children of dentist Rania al-Abbassi were killed.They were killed on March 11, 2013, the day the moukhabarat (Syrian intelligence) raided the family home around 8:30 a.m. in the Mashroua Dummar district of Damascus. The agents arrested Dima, 14, Intissar, 13, Najah, 11, Alaa, 8, Ahmad, 6, and Layane, 2, along with their mother. The children were coldly murdered two hours later in a regime detention center. Abbassi's fate remains unknown.Two days earlier, on March 9, 2013, their father, Abdelrahman Yassin, had been arrested by military intelligence officers. He was tortured and killed a month later. His body appeared in one of the 50,000 photographs smuggled out by dissident photographer Caesar. According to...
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