On Tuesday, 11 November 2025, in the Sayyidah Zainab area of Damascus, the young man Walid Fares Al-Khatib, who belongs to the Shiite community, went missing while heading to his work, with no information received about his fate or whereabouts. This incident occurs within a general context where killings, sectarian violence, and kidnappings targeting minorities in Syria have escalated, in the period following Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s assumption of power.
