Drone footage captures the Qaboun neighbourhood in the Syrian capital Damascus, one of the regions that shows the deepest marks of years of intense bombardment by the Assad regime. Once one of the city’s most vibrant residential areas, it is now largely reduced to rubble, with most of its buildings completely destroyed. | TRT World

A new investigation reveals how deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad secretly moved bodies from Qutayfah to hide atrocities and boost his global image. Reuters reports that between 2019 and 2021, thousands of bodies were transferred to a secret desert site. Syria’s current government is now building a DNA bank to help identify the remains. | TRT World