A man, identified as Khaled Farhan al-Fayyad from Mahkan town in eastern rural Deir Ez-Zour governorate, was shot dead on December 30, 2023, by gunmen we have not yet been able to identify in the badiya ‘desert’ of Tadmur in eastern rural Homs governorate as they were trying to steal his sheep herd.
The area is under the control of Syrian regime forces. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) is still trying to locate eyewitnesses to obtain more information about the incident. We call on the controlling forces to uphold their responsibilities for protecting civilians in their areas, to investigate this incident, and to make the investigation’s findings known to the public. Syria will never have true stability without a genuine political transition process towards democracy within a fixed timetable.
