News Center_Areas under the control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadists are witnessing an alarming rise in murder rates, amid the absence of legal deterrence and the deterioration of security conditions. Dozens of crimes have been recorded in recent months, claiming the lives of civilians, including women and children.

Since the beginning of January, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the killing of 93 civilians, including 14 women and 13 children, across various Syrian cities. These deaths were caused by the spread of uncontrolled weapons and the weakness of the security system, particularly in areas under the control of Hayat Tahrir al- Sham jihadists.

In its report published today, Thursday, January 15, the Observatory explained that this bloody scene has not distinguished between random gunfire, mutual shelling, or even direct assassination operations. It has instead revealed the harshest face of the conflict through the rise in sectarian-motivated killings, in addition to explosions of war remnants that continue to threaten civilians’ lives in their homes and lands, amid a clear failure and negligence by the controlling forces to enforce the law and protect civilians.

The Observatory noted that the incidents took various forms, including explosions, mutual shelling, criminal and sectarian killings, as well as deaths caused by explosions of war remnants that continue to endanger civilians’ lives.

The Observatory also documented cases of extrajudicial killings, government shelling, deaths caused by stray bullets, and family disputes that ended in fatalities. Dozens of victims were killed in Aleppo due to mutual shelling. The toll also included deaths under torture, field executions, the killing of a child by tear gas, and retaliatory killings reflecting the deepening security chaos.

In its report, the Observatory called on the controlling forces to assume their legal and moral responsibilities toward residential areas and to control the spread of unregulated weapons, which now threaten what remains of the country’s social fabric.