Forensic evidence points to Assad government’s secret transfer of bodies across Syria

Working with a team of forensic geologists, a Reuters investigation used comparative soil techniques to further corroborate our key finding: Bashar al-Assad’s government transferred thousands of bodies from one mass grave in the Damascus suburb of Qutayfah to a hidden location in Syria’s desert. The analysis drew on thousands of drone photographs that were stitched together to create two high-resolution composite images.

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