Three new mass graves containing the remains of 20 people whose identities remain unknown have been discovered in the village of Kabou, in the Homs Rif region of Syria. The discovery of these three grave sites was first revealed by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), and reported by Russia Today. The remains are believed to belong to former detainees and those who were forcibly disappeared.

On Dec. 23, SOHR revealed the discovery of a mass grave in Homs containing over 1,200 bodies, which the organization suspects to be those of former detainees of Bashar al-Assad's regime. The work to identify all the victims is still underway.

According to the war monitor's count, nine mass graves have been found since the fall of the Assad regime on Dec. 8, and across them at least 1,475 victims found. Among the graves, two were found in Daraa with 128 bodies, three near Damascus with 128 bodies and four in Homs.