A Syrian commission has officially confirmed the deaths of the six children of Rania al-Abbasi, who disappeared in 2013 during the rule of former president Bashar al-Assad. The children had been among the many Syrians who went missing during the country's prolonged civil conflict, and their fate had remained unknown for over a decade. The confirmation brings a grim resolution to one of the cases that drew international attention to the enforced disappearances carried out under the Assad government.