Search teams pulled 25 bodies out of a mass grave on Friday in a suburb of Damascus. It is believed that the site contains at least 175 bodies, officials said.
The bodies were found in an agricultural field in the suburb of Otaiba, and according to authorities, they belonged to people who had been killed in an ambush by the forces of then-President Bashar Assad as they were fleeing the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta, which was then under the control of opposition forces.
