Over the past two days, sectarian violations including killings, detentions, and abductions have intensified in residential areas of the western countryside of Homs.
A young man named Ednan Subhi Kiresh was shot dead by armed individuals while he was on his land west of the city of Homs.
At the El Hishma checkpoint belonging to HTS forces, a 60-year-old civilian named Mahmud Hedmud was detained, and his fate remains unknown.
Groups affiliated with HTS raided the village of Al-Hur al-Gharbiyye and detained Said Cerdo, Hasan Kiresh, Hafiz Semero, and several women.
In the villages of Al-Mazra’a and Al-Hamidiyye, cemeteries belonging to Shiites were vandalized.