trol of the Syrian regime, the situation was not better, as a result of the regime bringing in foreign fighters. Namely, Iraqi, Iranian, Lebanese and Afghan militias to fight alongside it, which also resulted in illegal marriages and births that do not grant Syrian nationality by Syrian law. However, the most difficult cases remain those of Syrian women who were arrested by the Syrian regime, raped inside the detention centers and gave birth as a result. It is worth noting that the Syrian regime did not give importance to the issue after the country had lived through these circumstances. On the contrary, it continued to downplay the problem and circumvent it by studying the law on granting nationality to those of unknown lineage, as approved by the Syrian People’s Assembly with a majority on June 12th, 2018, which sparked widespread controversy among the members of the assembly. It is controversial, as this law opens the way to granting Syrian nationality to the children of “terrorists” - as they were described by some members who took up arms against the “Syrian state”, forgetting that they were born to Syrian mothers regardless of the affiliation of their fathers. The term “of unknown parentage” applies to them, which is the term approved by law instead of the term “foundlings”, without realizing the negative psychological, social and practical effects that will reverberate on children’s lives. 17 HUMANS WITHOUT RIGHTS