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Analysis of more than 134,000 leaked files from Syria’s Air Force Intelligence, General Intelligence Directorate and other security services provides remarkable new evidence of a state-directed program involving mass detention, torture and killing.
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Photos of more than 10,200 corpses show how Syrian authorities methodically catalogued the murder of civilian detainees from 2015 through 2024, contradicting Bashar Assad’s denials of mass atrocities.
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Interviews by ICIJ and NDR with seven families whose loved ones’ deaths are verified in the records, provide personal verification of the regime’s abuses.
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Review of documents reveals that United Nations agencies paid at least $11 million to a Syrian private security company responsible for guarding U.N. facilities — a company that was owned and controlled by Assad’s intelligence services.