US EditionSectarian Tensions Flare in Syria’s Homs After the Killing of a Bedouin Couple
The killing sparked retaliatory attacks causing at least two deaths and dozens injured, with security forces imposing a curfew to restore order in Homs.
- On Sunday, a husband and wife from a Bedouin tribe were found killed at their Zaidal, Homs home, the wife burned and sectarian slogans left, Maj. Gen. Murhaf al‑Nassan said the attack aims to fuel sectarian divisions.
- Last week a trial opened for some of the hundreds of suspects linked to coastal violence, following pro‑Assad armed groups' ambush and revenge attacks that killed hundreds of Alawite civilians on Syria's coast.
- Members of the Bani Khaled tribe reportedly attacked an Alawite-majority neighborhood in Homs, carrying out arson, vandalism and indiscriminate gunfire targeting multiple homes, vehicles and private properties.
- The Supreme Alawite Islamic Council in Syria and the Diaspora said at least two people were killed and 10 injured and urged international intervention, while security forces imposed an overnight curfew and Syria's Interior Ministry urged calm.
- Homs, Syria's third-largest city, has a mixed religious and sectarian makeup, and had largely remained calm, spared from the major March coastal outbreak, but the recent violence challenges that peace.
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Curfew Imposed in Homs as Sectarian Tensions Erupt After Brutal Double Murder
Authorities in Homs imposed a sweeping curfew on Sunday evening following a gruesome double murder in the village of Zaidal that triggered armed reprisals, sporadic gunfire, and acts of vandalism across several southern neighbourhoods. The city was plunged into one of its most serious security crises in months. The curfew, effective from 5:00 PM Sunday to 5:00 AM Monday, was accompanied by the deployment of heavy military police and internal sec…
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Sectarian tensions flare in Syria's Homs after the killing of a Bedouin couple
The killing of a husband and wife from a Bedouin tribe in Syria’s Homs province on Sunday triggered renewed sectarian tensions.The bodies were found at their home in the town of Zaidal, “with signs that the wife had been burned,” state-run news agency SANA reported, adding that “sectarian slogans were also found at the crime scene.”
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