Syria’s undocumented children ‘pay the price’ of war and a law that shuts out mothers
By UN News November 4, 2026 © UNOCHA/Ali Haj Suleiman Child detainees inside Syria's notorious Al Hol camp for displaced people, which includes hundreds of family members of alleged ISIL terrorist fighters. Many children born in Syria since the war began in 2011 have no legal identity because nationality passes only through fathers – many of whom are dead or missing – a member of the independent UN commission investigating rights violations in the country said on Wednesday. “A child born in...