Mass grave

Mass grave

A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair, February 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings: Reuters investigation

From 2019 to 2021, Syria’s authoritarian government carried out a secret operation to move tens of thousands of bodies from the exposed Qutayfah mass grave to a hidden site in the desert east of...

Fighters of the ruling Syrian body inspect the site of a mass grave from the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, according to residents, after the ousting of al-Assad, in Najha, Syria, December 17, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Syrian mass graves expose 'machinery of death' under Assad: top prosecutor

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. Photo: UNB

UN calls for investigation into mass graves uncovered at two Gaza hospitals raided by Israel

People work to move into a cemetery bodies of Palestinians killed during Israel's military offensive and buried at Nasser hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo

UN rights chief 'horrified' by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals

Relatives react after viewing the exhumed remains of Esther Biriya Masha who was a follower of the Christian cult named Good News International Church, who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death in Shakahola, as the authorities begin to hand over bodies to family members, at the Star Specialist hospital funeral home in Malindi, Kilifi county, Kenya 26 March 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Kenyan families weep for starvation cult victims as first bodies released

The bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes are buried in a mass grave, after they were transported from Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City for burial, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 22. File Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Israel accused of more war crimes after 30 bodies found in Gaza school

People, including Palestinian children, who fled their house due to Israeli strikes, gather at Al Shifa hospital where they shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza City November 7, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer

Gaza hospital director says 179 buried in 'mass grave' in compound

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UN says 87 bodies buried in Sudan mass grave

A cross is seen at a forest grave site during an exhumation, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the town of Izium, recently liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine September 18, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Governor says 146 bodies exhumed so far from mass burial site in Ukraine's Izium

Members of Ukrainian Emergency Service carry a body as they work at a place of mass burial during an exhumation, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the town of Izium, recently liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine September 17, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Ukraine searches for its dead at Russian occupation burial site

Outrage as Ukraine finds mass grave near liberated Izyum

Outrage as Ukraine finds mass grave near liberated Izyum

A Ukrainian serviceman walks among graves of mostly unidentified civilians and Ukrainian soldiers at an improvised cemetery in the town of Izium, recently recently liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during a counteroffensive operation, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine September 15, 2022. REUTERS/Oleksandr Khomenko

Hundreds found in mass burial site after Russians leave Ukraine city

File Photo: People walk through a nearly empty Times Square, during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in New York City, US, March 19, 2020. Reuters/Lucas Jackson

New York considering temporary mass graves for virus victims