SDF-held areas | Tension rises between two families of Al-Shaitat tribe in eastern Deir Ezzor countryside over killing husband by brothers-in-law in Turkey

Deir Ezzor province: Abu Hammam village in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor which is in SDF-controlled areas has seen tension between two families of the Al-Shaitat tribe.

This comes amid fears of erupting family fighting over killing a 20-year-old husband of one family by his wife’s siblings from the other family in Turkey for beating the wife. The husband’s brothers-in-law beat him and hit him in the head, and killed him.

This comes in light of the ongoing security chaos that pervades SDF-controlled areas.

In 2022, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) documented 109 armed fightings in areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). These fightings left more than 94 people, including 26 civilians, including eight children and eight women, and 81 militants dead and left dozens, if not hundreds, injured.