As Syria builds its DNA labs, Arab News speaks to a son still searching for his father

DUBAI: Hassan Aliwi waited nine years to find out what had happened to his family in Raqqa. In September, he finally heard. His sister Manar, her husband Bassam and five children had been killed when their building was destroyed in August 2017. His father had been in that building with them, and no one has found him. “Where is my father? Where did he go?” Hassan asked when Arab News spoke to him. “They found my sister, her husband and their children, but not my father.” The Syrian Arab Republic

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