Richard Engel

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The lives of hundreds of thousands of children have been shattered during Israel's yearlong military offensive in Gaza. NBC News spoke to some of them, as well as doctors and aid officials.

“If I had been valued a little more — not much, just a little — maybe it could have ended differently,” Roni Lifshitz, one of the former observers, told NBC News last month.

The volunteer civil defense force, which is 90% women, is primarily tasked with defending the skies, shooting down the Iranian-made Shahed drones that arrive nearly every night.

But worries remain as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, leader of what was once a Qaeda offshoot, tightens his grip on Damascus.

One woman said her son had been missing for a decade. He was accused of being a militant; she said he was a nurse.

“We hold Bashar al-Assad and his criminal regime accountable for the consequences of Austin's disappearance and the pain inflicted on his mother — pain, tears, and separation," spokesman Obaida Al-Arnaot told NBC News.

NBC News gained exclusive access to the marble atrium and wood-lined library of the deposed president's former-residence.

Travis Timmerman spoke to NBC News in a building on the outskirts of the Syrian capital following the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Austin Tice appeared to be in “somewhat good” condition in 2022, said an activist and citizen journalist who said he had been jailed with Tice.