Syria says missing chess champion’s six children likely killed under Assad

Syria says missing chess champion’s six children likely killed under Assad Submitted by Reem Aouir on Sun, 05/31/2026 - 11:11 Preliminary findings implicate ex-intelligence officer Amjad Youssef in deaths of the children missing since 2013 Rania al-Abbasi and her family became a symbol of Syria's thousands of missing persons cases (media outlets/social media) Off Syria's commission for missing persons said on Saturday that the six children of chess champion and dentist Rania al-Abbasi were killed after disappearing with their parents more than a decade ago under former President Bashar al-Assad. In a post on X, the interior ministry said: “Through investigations conducted with several detainees, information and evidence indicate that the children were killed by groups and militias affiliated with the former regime. ” It added that “efforts to find the remains...