US EditionHoms Extends Citywide Curfew Amid Escalating Violence Following Zaidal Double Murder
Authorities arrested 120 suspects and deployed security forces after weekend killings sparked retaliatory attacks and unrest in western Homs neighborhoods, officials said.
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Thousands of Syrians demonstrated on Tuesday 25 November to denounce the violence against the Alawite community. This is the most important protest movement of this minority since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, who had emerged from it. It is responding to a new rise of intercommunal violence in the country since Sunday 23 November, especially in Homs (centre), where vandalizations took place against Alawites, accused of the murder of Bed…
Homs Extends Citywide Curfew Amid Escalating Violence Following Zaidal Double Murder
The Internal Security Command in Homs has extended a stringent curfew across vast swathes of the city until 5:00 PM on Monday, prolonging a lockdown first imposed at dusk on Sunday. The measure, described by authorities as essential for completing “field operations,” follows a night of acute tension triggered by the brutal killing of a man and his wife in the rural village of Zaidal, an act that swiftly ignited armed reprisals and plunged parts …
Syria extends curfew in Homs after murder, sectarian violence
Syrian authorities have extended a curfew in several neighbourhoods in the city of Homs following sectarian violence which broke out following the horrific murder of a man and woman on Sunday. The curfew was originally imposed on Sunday from 5pm until 5am but has now been extended until 5pm on Monday. It includes predominantly Alawite neighbourhoods of the city, such as Ikrima and Al-Zahraa, as well as mixed and predominantly Sunni neighbourhood…
Homs, Security forces move to contain fallout from sectarian-motivated crime - Enab Baladi
Tension is prevailing in Homs province in central Syria after a man and his wife were killed and sectarian slogans were written in their blood, amid intervention by army units and the Internal Security Forces. The bodies of the man and his wife were found inside their home, with sectarian slogans written in the victims’ blood, in the town of Zaidal (south of Homs in central Syria), on the morning of Sunday, 23 November. The head of the Internal …
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