Disputes over inheritance | Young man kil*ls his uncle in Rif Dimashq

Rif Dimashq province: A civilian was killed by his nephew after the nephew beat him on the head with a battery several times, inside the house of the murderer in Harista area in Rif Dimashq due to disputes over inheritance.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 244 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2024, where domestic violence and armed robberies were behind some of these murders, while motives behind the others remained unknown. These murder crimes left 268 fatalities: 15 children, 51 women and 202 young and adult men. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

Daraa: 80 murder crimes left 73 men, six children and 13 women dead.

Rif Dimashq: 46 murder crimes left 36 men, four children and 11 women dead.

Homs: 25 murder crimes left 22 men, a little girl and three women dead.

Al-Suwaidaa: 23 murder crimes left 15 men, a little boy and eight women dead.

Hama: 18 murder crimes left 13 men, six women and two children dead.

Tartus: 11 murder crimes left nine men, a child and a woman dead.

Deir Ezzor: 11 murder crimes left nine men and two women dead.

Damascus: Nine murder crimes left two women and eight men dead.

Latakia: Eight murder crimes left seven men and two women dead.

Aleppo: Ten murder crimes left seven men and three women dead.

Al-Hasakah: Two murder crimes left two men dead.

Al-Quneitra: One murder crime left a man dead.