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A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair, February 27, 2025. A Reuters investigation found that the Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies there from an exposed mass grave in the Damascus suburb of Qutayfah from 2019 to 2021. (REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi)
December 29, 2025, 10:25 am
Syria secures Assad-era mass grave revealed in October, opens criminal investigation
Soldiers deployed to remote site revealed by Reuters report detailing years-long effort by ousted dictator to mask atrocities by hiding thousands of bodies in the desert
By Feras Dalatey and Ryan McNeill
A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair, February 27, 2025. A Reuters investigation found that the Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies there from an exposed mass grave in the Damascus suburb of Qutayfah from 2019 to 2021. (REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi)
October 15, 2025, 6:36 am
Exposed: Syria’s Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings
For 2 years, dictator’s military ordered bodies moved from a known mass grave to secret desert location; witness accounts suggest new site may hold tens of thousands of remains
By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Feras Dalatey, Ryan McNeill and Khalil Ashawi
Troops of the Kfir Brigade's Netzah Yehuda Battalion operate in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, in a handout image published April 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 24, 2024, 1:03 pm
Daily Briefing April 24: Day 201 – Gaza heats up; Hezbollah drones reach Israeli beaches
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on intensified fighting in Strip and IDF efforts to evacuate Gazans, IDF’s responses to mass graves accusations, and detention of 13 people and 2 goats
By ToI Staff
Members of a Latvian militia unit assemble a group of Jewish women for murder on a beach near Liepāja, December 15, 1941. (Bundesarchiv bild)
August 26, 2023, 9:43 am
With new technology, researchers find mass grave of Jews murdered by Nazis in Latvia
Grave contains victims of 1941 massacre in Liepāja that was filmed by a German soldier; Jewish museum director says site should be marked as a memorial
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative: A view of the Górki Czechowskie park in Lublin, Poland. (Park na Górkach Czechowskich)
May 21, 2023, 11:26 pm
World War II-era mass grave discovered in Lublin, Poland
Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich says he does not know whether the bodies are those of Jews
By ToI Staff
Bags with dead bodies are seen during the exhumation in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
September 17, 2022, 12:53 am
Ukraine: Bodies at mass burial site recaptured from Russia show signs of torture
Zelensky says 440 graves were discovered near Izium; one official says number of dead ‘may be many times higher than the Bucha tragedy’
By VASILISA STEPANENKO
A Ukrainian serviceman uses a metal detector to inspect a mass grave in the recently retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022 which contains Ukrainian soldiers who were killed during the fighting against Russians near the beginning of the war. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)
September 16, 2022, 2:24 am
440 bodies: Ukraine says mass grave uncovered in city recaptured from Russians
Remains reportedly discovered in pit in northeastern city of Izium, near Kharkiv, after Russians retreat; deputy interior minister says torture chambers found in area
By VASILISA STEPANENKO
Journalists stand by a mass grave in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
April 4, 2022, 11:53 pm
Russia to present its own version of alleged mass killings near Ukrainian capital
Moscow says it will present UN with documents about ‘real nature’ of alleged mass killings in Bucha; bodies of 5 tortured men found in basement of a children’s health facility
By AFP
Illustrative: A mink sniffs the air as he surveys the river beach in search of food, in meadow near the village of Khatenchitsy, northwest of Minsk, Belarus, September 4, 2015. (Sergei Grits/AP)
November 26, 2020, 4:48 pm
Culled Danish mink rise from their graves
Thousands of animals that were killed to minimize risk of re-transmitting mutated form of coronavirus to humans resurface due to buildup of decomposition gases
By JAN M. OLSEN
Workers wearing personal protective equipment bury bodies in a trench on Hart Island, Thursday, April 9, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York. On Thursday, New York City’s medical examiner confirmed that the city has shortened the amount of time it will hold on to remains to 14 days from 30 days before they will be transferred for temporary internment at a City Cemetery. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
April 10, 2020, 10:33 pm
As virus kills, NYC officials seen digging mass grave for unclaimed bodies
City cuts time it will hold unclaimed remains before they are buried in potter’s field on Hart Island, as morgues and funeral homes struggle to deal with deaths
By Michael R. Sisak and JOHN MINCHILLO
Rabbis rebury remains of 60 Holocaust victims killed by Romanian troops, which were found in a mass grave in Popricani, northern Romania. The reinterred them at the Jewish cemetery in Iasi, Romania, Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Radu Aneculaesi/Proimage)
July 3, 2019, 5:53 am
More human remains found near Jewish mass grave in Romania
Finds point to second mass grave at site of WWII massacre of Jews carried out by Romanian troops allied with Nazi Germany
By AFP
ZAKA volunteers perform the final rites before burying the remains of Holocaust victims at a cemetery just outside Brest, Belarus, on May 22, 2019. (Uladz Hrydzin, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty via AP)
May 22, 2019, 6:47 pm
Remains of 1,214 Holocaust victims laid to rest in Belarus
Bones and personal items re-interred after unearthed by construction workers in city of Brest; building work on site of former Jewish ghetto to restart despite protests
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: The aftermath of desecration in March 2019 of the mass grave of Holocaust victims near Raflivka, Ukraine. (Courtesy of Eduard Dolinsky via JTA)
March 8, 2019, 4:45 pm
Mass grave for Holocaust victims in Ukraine desecrated for 2nd time this year
Killing pit at Raflivka reportedly dug up by gravediggers looking for gold amid the remains of 2,500 Jews murdered there
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this file photo taken on February 3, 2015, Yazidis search for missing relatives in the remains of people killed by Islamic State jihadists near the Iraqi village of Sinuni. (Safin Hamed/AFP)
December 21, 2018, 1:45 pm
Dozens of bodies found in Islamic State mass grave in Iraq
In latest ghoulish discovery, authorities discover bodies of civilians, believed abducted and executed by jihadist group, at the bottom of a well in Kirkuk
By AFP
This frame grab from a video provided on Thursday, November 22, 2018, shows Syrian workers in Raqqa walk on a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of many hundreds of civilians and Islamic State fighters in Raqqa. (AP Photo)
November 27, 2018, 6:55 pm
Hundreds of bodies exhumed from mass grave in Syria’s Raqqa
Panorama grave, named after the neighborhood where it was found, believed to contain some 1,500 bodies, is among the largest of nine such graves discovered so far
By Zeina Karam
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