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Living or Dead, We Want Our Sons Back

Five days after the Syrian opposition toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime in early December, Lynsey Addario traveled to Damascus to document the people picking up the pieces after 13 years of civil war.

Living or Dead, We Want Our Sons Back

Five days after the Syrian opposition toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime in early December, Lynsey Addario traveled to Damascus to document the people picking up the pieces after 13 years of civil war.

‘Living or Dead, We Want Our Sons Back’

Five days after the Syrian opposition toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime in early December, Lynsey Addario traveled to Damascus to document the people picking up the pieces after 13 years of civil war.

‘Living or Dead, We Want Our Sons Back’

Five days after the Syrian opposition toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime, as people started picking up the pieces after 13 years of civil war, Syrians rushed to learn the fate of people who had disappeared. Those who went missing were mostly men, and many of those left behind were their mothers, wives and children. At morgues, prisons and hospitals in Damascus, women started searching for answers, confronting the full horror of al-Assad’s brutality, trying to understand what was lost and rebuild what they could from what remains.