BBC Tracks Assad's Feared Spy Chief to Moscow Using Phone Book Found in Abandoned Apartment

At least 28 people killed in the Eid Massacre including 17 children; hundreds of thousands died in Syria's civil war; systematic torture and disappearances in regime detention facilities under Luka's control.

In the aftermath of Syria's collapsed regime, a BBC investigation has traced Hussam Luka — known as 'The Spider' and accused of orchestrating systematic torture and the killing of children — to the outskirts of Moscow, where Russia's long-standing protection of Assad's inner circle renders justice a distant prospect. The search began in an abandoned Damascus apartment and wound through a handwritten notebook of 155 names, across borders and silences, until a voice on a Russian phone line confirmed what many feared: that impunity, too, has a geography. For the families of the Eid Massacre's twe

BBC Tracks Assad's Feared Spy Chief to Moscow Using Phone Book Found in Abandoned Apartment

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