On March 23, 2024, the bodies of two men bearing gunshot wounds, who were identified as Hussein al-Fandi and Ahmad al-Salem, were found by local residents near the badiya or desert area around Ma’dan in eastern Raqqa governorate. The two men had gone missing while searching for desert truffles two days before their bodies were found. The area is under the control of Syrian regime forces.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has not yet been able to identify their killers as of this writing, with the controlling forces bearing responsibility for identifying his killers.
