Screenshot of a photo circulating on social media showing the bathroom of the murdered couple with an inscription written in blood, taken on Nov. 23, 2025, and posted on X.
It all began with a gruesome murder and a sectarian-sounding message written with blood at the crime scene. “Dogs of Bani Umayyad, ya Hussein,” read the Arabic inscription on the bathroom wall of the couple killed on Sunday evening, Nov. 23, in the Zaidal suburb on the eastern outskirts of Homs. The man had his throat slit, and the woman was burned alive; they had lived there for about thirty years.The killing quickly sparked tensions in this mixed city along the Damascus-Aleppo road. By late afternoon, dozens of armed members of the Sunni Bani Khalid tribe, to which the victims belonged, were heading toward the Alawite neighborhoods in the Homs region. Where progress has been made Coastal massacres: In Aleppo, a historic trial where everyone claims innocence The city, at the exit of the main route to the coast, is now facing one of...
It all began with a gruesome murder and a sectarian-sounding message written with blood at the crime scene. “Dogs of Bani Umayyad, ya Hussein,” read the Arabic inscription on the bathroom wall of the couple killed on Sunday evening, Nov. 23, in the Zaidal suburb on the eastern outskirts of Homs. The man had his throat slit, and the woman was burned alive; they had lived there for about thirty years.The killing quickly sparked tensions in this mixed city along the Damascus-Aleppo road. By late afternoon, dozens of armed members of the Sunni Bani Khalid tribe, to which the victims belonged, were heading toward the Alawite neighborhoods in the Homs region. Where progress has been made Coastal massacres: In Aleppo, a historic trial where everyone claims innocence The city, at the exit of the main route to the coast, is now facing...
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