Daraa: A Lawyer has been Killed by Unidentified Gunmen in the East side of the governorate, Amid a Renewed Security Chaos

07/09/2025

A lawyer was killed on Saturday evening in the town of Ma’araba in eastern Daraa countryside, after unidentified gunmen stormed his house and opened fire directly at him, leading to his immediate death.

According to circulating reports, the victim was a former member of the Oversight and Follow-up Committee affiliated with the Sharia Committee before the fall of the regime.

The incident comes amid a renewed wave of assassinations and targeted killings that have been occurring frequently across the province.

According to documented statistics, the number of victims of retaliatory killings or assassinations across various Syrian provinces has risen to 1,010 since the beginning of 2025, including:

957 men

32 women

21 children

The toll is distributed among the provinces as follows:

Damascus: 48 (47 men, 1 woman) – 25 cases were sectarian-motivated

Rural Damascus: 92 (90 men, 2 women) – 18 sectarian-motivated cases

Homs: 327 (301 men, 17 women, 9 children) – 198 sectarian-motivated cases

Hama: 212 (201 men, 7 women, 4 children) – 136 sectarian-motivated cases

Latakia: 96 (86 men, 4 women, 6 children) – 74 sectarian-motivated cases

Aleppo: 87 (87 men) – 3 sectarian-motivated cases

Tartus: 70 (68 men, 1 woman, 1 child) – 54 sectarian-motivated cases

Idlib: 20 (20 men) – no sectarian motives reported