I'm Ayesha Roscoe, and this is a Sunday Story from Up First,
where we go beyond the news to bring you one big story.
Over the winter, NPR's Dia Hadid was reporting in Syria.
Rebel fighters had just overthrown the brutal dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad.
In her weeks of reporting, Dia discovered something shocking.
It wasn't just men and women who were imprisoned by the Assad regime.
Children were also taken, and many remain unaccounted for.
Today on The Sunday Story, what happened to the disappeared children of Syria?
Dia Hadid brings us the story from her reporting in Damascus after the break.
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