Domestic violence | Woman kil-led by her husband in regime areas in Damascus

A woman from Deir Ezzor city and living in Damascus was killed by her husband, who suffers a psychological illness, where she was stabbed several times in her body and head, after she was tortured along with her children before she died.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 49 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2023, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders, while motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murder crimes left 51 fatalities: 14 women, 31 young and adult men and six children. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:
• Rif Dimashq: Eight murder crimes left a woman, seven men and a child dead.
• Latakia: Seven murder crimes left three men, four women and a child dead.
• Al-Suwaidaa: Nine murder crimes left a child, six men and two women dead.
• Homs: Four murder crimes left a man, a woman, a young man and a child dead
• Hama: Two murder crimes left two men dead.
• Daraa: Six murder crimes left five men and a woman dead.
• Damascus: Six murder crimes left a woman, a child and three men dead.
• Aleppo: Three murder crimes left a child and two women dead.
• Deir Ezzor: Two murders crime left two young men dead.
• Al-Hasakah: One murder crime left one woman dead.
• Al-Qunaitrah: One murder crime left one young man dead.