Ongoing security chaos | Nine civilians including woman, old man and journalist killed in eight murder crimes in regime-held in seven days

Regime-held areas have experienced escalating crimes rate in light of the regime security services’ failure to put an end to the state of disorder and rampant security chaos in Syrian provinces.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented eight murder crimes in regime-held areas in seven days, which left nine fatalities, including a woman, a journalist and an elderly man.

The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

Homs: Two murder crimes left a man and a young man dead.
Daraa: Two murder crimes left a woman and a man dead.
Al-Suwaidaa: Two murder crimes left an elderly man and a boy dead.
Al-Hasakah: One murder crime left a young man dead.
Latakia: One murder crime left a young man and a man dead.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 23 murders in regime-controlled areas since the bingeing of 2024, where domestic violence and armed robberies were behind some of these murders, while motives behind the others remained unknown. These murder crimes left 24 fatalities, including four women, 17 men and three children. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Daraa: Seven murder crimes left seven, including two women and a child people dead.

• Rif Dimashq: Four murder crimes left four, including a woman and a child dead.

• Damascus: One murder crime left a woman dead.

• Deir Ezzor: One murder crime left a man dead.

• Homs: Three murder crimes left three civilians dead.

• Hama: Two murder crimes left a young man dead.

• Al-Hasakah: Two murder crimes left two civilians dead.

• Lattakia: One crime left two men dead.

• Al-Suwaidaa: Two murder crimes left a man and a child dead