🔸 Incident Details

Civilian Zahed Younes Mustafa was killed after being targeted by armed militants affiliated with the de facto authority’s terrorist elements while returning from the city of Homs to his village.

The attack occurred on the road between Turkmen Tisneen and Kafrnan, where the victim was struck by two bullets that caused his immediate death.

The perpetrators were riding a motorcycle and fled toward the village of Tisneen after executing the attack.

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🟥 A Systematic Sectarian Pattern

In recent months, the village of Kafrnan has witnessed a series of repeated sectarian-motivated killings, resulting in the deaths of six civilians in three separate incidents, including:

1. 27 September 2025

The killing of Amjad Rakan al-Suweid, a civilian who was shot inside his car by Turkmen gunmen affiliated with the de facto authority while on his way to collect bread for his village.

2. 3 May 2025 — The Kafrnan Massacre

The killing of four farmers from the Alawite and Murshidi communities while working in their agricultural fields:
• Safa Khader Abbas (65)
• Nashmiyyeh Ibrahim Eid (60)
• Nazmiyyeh Suweid (47)
• Numeir al-Mustafa (45) — the brother of today’s victim

3. 12 January 2025

The killing of another civilian from Kafrnan by militants belonging to the de facto authority.

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🟥 Connection to Previous Targeted Killings

The victim, Zahed Mustafa, belongs to the Al-Mallash Murshidi family — the same family that lost its son Numeir al-Mustafa in the May massacre.

The clear pattern linking these incidents — despite their close temporal proximity — indicates an ongoing, systematic campaign targeting civilians on the basis of their religious identity in Northern Homs countryside.

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🟥 A Clear and Consistent Pattern of Targeting

Available evidence shows that the area is subjected to a deliberate policy aimed at pressuring and displacing residents through:
• Direct killings based on religious identity
• Forced displacement
• Starvation tactics, including preventing villagers from accessing their farmland
• Continuous intimidation, including kidnappings and ongoing threats

All of this takes place within an environment enabled — and often directly facilitated — by the de facto authority’s terrorist apparatus, whose complicity, involvement, and active participation in these crimes is increasingly evident.

During a brutal sectarian attack on Alawite and Christian neighborhoods in Homs governorate, Emmanuel Baptist Church in the Armenian district was violently assaulted by a group of takfiri extremists, accompanied by their female associates, in full view of the terrorist de facto authorities.

According to field reports:
• On Monday morning, the assailants, along with their female accomplices, stormed the church building in a brutal and sectarian manner.
• They broke the church center’s main door and ascended to the first floor, where they forcibly removed external doors and interior room doors.
• The Holy Bible was torn apart, and the attackers seized and occupied the building by force, claiming it as their property.

These assaults are part of a systematic sectarian escalation targeting the Christian community in Syria and constitute a serious violation of principles protecting religious sites and civilian rights.

📍 Location: Al-Sayyada Village – Salamiyah Countryside, Hama Governorate
📅 Date: Monday, 1 December 2025

Members of the de facto authorities carried out a bombing targeting the shrine of Sheikh Faraj Abu Hiyya in the village of Al-Sayyada, in an attack with a clear sectarian character aimed at erasing the religious and symbolic heritage of the local community.

This bombing constitutes a serious violation of the protection of spiritual sites and places of worship, and comes within an escalating pattern of systematic assaults on the religious symbols of Syria’s diverse social components.

🔻 Chronological Narrative

Monday Night – 1 December 2025
The Jableh countryside witnessed the movement of a security convoy belonging to the de facto authorities in the areas of Ain al-Sharqiyya and Beit Yashout. The activity was unusual and accompanied by heightened tension and fears of sectarian targeting—especially following previous incidents attributed to the same forces in recent months.

Tuesday Morning – 2 December 2025
Contact with Hassan Wehib Salloum was lost while he was traveling on his motorcycle.

Shortly afterward, residents reported finding his body dumped near the Shrine of Sheikh Mousa in the village of Al-Qalaia, lying beside his motorcycle.
The circumstances of the scene strongly indicate a deliberate sectarian killing, with no signs of theft or struggle.

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🔻 Preliminary Assessment

Available evidence points to the killing being carried out by elements of the de facto authorities, who had been moving through the area only hours before the body was discovered. The attack appears to be a direct sectarian targeting of the victim due to his Alawite identity.

This killing represents yet another episode in a systematic pattern of identity-based violence against civilians, reflecting the ongoing state of impunity within areas controlled by the de facto authorities.