The New York Times Narrated

The Disappeared Children of Syria

Episode Summary

Bashar al-Assad’s regime took hundreds of children away from their parents. An investigation reveals the cruelty and scale of the operation — and how one family fought to reunite. To read the full story, please visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/magazine/syria-assad-children-orphanages.html By Shane Bauer Read by Malcolm Hillgartner Narration produced by Emma Kehlbeck and Krish Seenivasan Engineered by Quinton Kamara

Episode Notes

Bashar al-Assad’s regime took hundreds of children away from their parents. An investigation reveals the cruelty and scale of the operation — and how one family fought to reunite.

To read the full story, please visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/magazine/syria-assad-children-orphanages.html

By Shane Bauer
Read by Malcolm Hillgartner
Narration produced by Emma Kehlbeck and Krish Seenivasan
Engineered by Quinton Kamara