25 bodies recovered from a mass grave near Damascus, site believed to hold at least 175

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25 bodies recovered from a mass grave near Damascus, site believed to hold at least 175  Officials say the victims were killed by Assad's forces in an ambush while fleeing eastern Ghouta during the recent civil war.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/09/20/25-bodies-recovered-from-a-mass-grave-near-damascus-site-believed-to-hold-at-least-175  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Search teams pulled 25 bodies from a mass grave in a Damascus suburb on Friday,

00:05one of the largest grim remnants of Syria's long civil war.

00:10The site is believed to contain at least 175 people killed in a 2014 ambush

00:15by the forces of then-President Bashar Assad as they fled eastern Ghouta.

00:21Family members with missing loved ones came to the site for answers,

00:25including Samira Aloush, who was looking for her son Anas.

00:29She had hoped he was alive in prison, but on Friday, she found out a different answer.

00:35I had a problem with her.

00:39I didn't have a plan for her son.

00:43I had a plan for her son.

00:47The White Helmet Civil Defense Group says full excavation will wait for a formal process

00:52to be agreed by the National Commission for Missing Persons.

00:56This is just one of many mass graves being uncovered since Assad's fall,

01:00with an estimated 150,000 people still missing from the war.

01:06in the Top 5 rolled down for the night.

01:07So, when she takes care of both

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