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A Syrian committee says it has identified 314 children forcibly taken by the Assad regime from their detained parents, with thousands more still missing
![Thousands of Syrian children were forcibly taken from their parents under the rule of deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_330x185/public/2026-01/GettyImages-154281368.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=VooJFvlh)
![Children were taken from their parents and placed in orphanages by the Assad regime [Getty file image]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2025-07/GettyImages-494200294.jpg?h=a9b1ba5e&itok=EHk4lCL9)
![Hundreds of children were taken from their detained parents and placed in orphanages by the Assad regime [Getty file image]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2025-07/GettyImages-1236833465.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=1G0zAsiq)
![The families of Syria's disappeared have put up posters in Damascus desperately pleading for information [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2025-03/GettyImages-2190790135.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=8922weOb)
![The Assad regime destroyed the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2025-02/GettyImages-2196635030.jpg?h=3a6ef724&itok=u2JfXW_D)
![Posters have covered public buildings and monuments in Damascus, including the Marjeh Square monument [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2024-12/GettyImages-2189643060.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=ASjl1Q9Z)
![Nada Mougheeth [R] believes her husband [L] her husband could only ask her to look after his sick father. [Courtesy of Nada Mougheeth]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2024-08/Nada%20Mougheeth.jpg?h=29234840&itok=5Wh6Pksw)
