# Syria's missing: Hundreds of thousands remain unaccounted for after Assad's fall

https://mins.news/en/video/70545

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-09-23 11:51 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chlHDWcsRy4

> The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government has renewed hope among families searching for relatives who vanished during decades of repression in Syria. Human rights groups estimate that 130,000 to 300,000 people are still missing, many believed to have died in detention or been buried in mass graves.

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