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The Cover-Up: Inside the Plot to Conceal Assad’s Crimes
ByChristina Goldbaum and Saad Alnassife December 30, 2025December 30, 2025

Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its atrocities during the Syrian civil war.

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How the Assad Regime Covered Up Its Crimes: Key Takeaways
ByChristina Goldbaum December 30, 2025December 30, 2025

We documented how the dictator Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen conspired to hide evidence of torture and deaths of detainees during Syria’s long civil war.

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Raja Shehadeh Believes Israelis and Palestinians Can Still Find Peace
ByDavid Marchese December 20, 2025December 22, 2025

The writer and lawyer has been documenting the occupation for decades. Somehow, he maintains hope.

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Iranian Authorities Assaulted Detained Nobel Laureate, Family Says
ByErika Solomon and Sanam Mahoozi December 15, 2025December 15, 2025

Narges Mohammadi and several other Iranian activists were detained last Friday. She has been beaten, requiring emergency medical treatment, and accused of working with Israel, her family said.

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Iran Arrests Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Amid Broader Crackdown
ByFarnaz Fassihi December 12, 2025December 12, 2025

The human rights activist was released on furlough from prison last year, but was detained again on Friday, along with several other human rights activists.

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Syria Tiptoes Toward Transitional Justice One Year After Assad’s Ouster
ByCarlotta Gall and Saad Alnassife November 29, 2025

Fourteen people are on trial, charged with crimes related to an outbreak of sectarian violence under the new government. The abuses of the old Assad regime still await a reckoning.

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After Syria’s 14-Year Civil War, a Search for Victims Leads to Mass Graves
ByRaja Abdulrahim November 21, 2025November 21, 2025

More than 100,000 people disappeared during the civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new government faces the challenging task of exhuming remains from scores of burial sites.

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Israeli Settler Attack During West Bank Olive Harvest Leads to Death of a Boy
ByDavid M. Halbfinger November 14, 2025November 20, 2025

Palestinians see the violence, and its tolerance by right-wing Israeli officialdom, as part of a broader campaign to harass them and make life so unbearable that they will abandon their villages.

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Unwed Mothers and Their Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia
ByVivian Nereim and Abdi Latif Dahir November 10, 2025

A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats and police officers turned the mothers away.

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Why Children of Unmarried Mothers Are Stranded in Saudi Arabia
ByVivian Nereim and Abdi Latif Dahir November 10, 2025

We pieced together the details, from Riyadh to Nairobi.

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