Mu-rders in regime-held areas | Body of civilian found in western Homs countryside

Homs province: The body of a resident of Laftaya village in the western countryside of Homs was found dead with a number of stab wounds by a sharp object by unknown persons dumped on the road leading to Umm Al-Azam village in the western countryside of Homs. However, the motives of the crime remain unknown.

This comes in light of the increasing crime rate throughout Syria and as a part of rampant security chaos prevailing across Syria.

 

The Syrian Observatory has documented 157 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2022, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders, while motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murders left 172 civilians: 32 children, 28 women, and 111 young and adult men, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Al-Suwaydaa: 34 civilians: four children, including an infant, three women, and 27 men.

• Rif Dimashq: 32 civilians: six children, seven women, and 19 men, including an Iraqi man.

• Homs: 26 civilians: two little girls, four women, and 20 men.

• Hama: 18 civilians: an infant, two children, four women, and 11 men.

• Daraa: 12 civilians: six children and six men.

• Deir Ezzor: 11 people: seven men, a child, and three women.

• Aleppo: Eight civilians: an infant and seven men.

• Tartus: 11 civilians: four women, four men, and three children.

• Damascus: Eight civilians: a woman, six men and a child.

• Latakia: Eight civilians: two women, four children, and two men.

• Al-Raqqah: Two men.

• Idlib: A man.

• Al-Quneitra: A child.