On 23 January 2025, the Syrian Network for Human Rights documented the enforced disappearance of around 3,700 children by the Syrian regime since March 2011, confirming that the fate of most of them remains unknown despite the fall of the Assad regime.
The network called for an urgent investigation into associations and institutions that received children from security agencies during the years of the conflict, noting that the Syrian regime followed detention policies that affected thousands of children, whether with their families or separately. Reports also emerged about the transfer of children born inside detention centers to orphanages and care centers.
According to the network, some institutions, including SOS, received numbers of children without documents proving their identities. These practices continued until 2019, before the institution introduced changes to admission mechanisms and required identifying information about the children.