Tension prevails Homs city, accompanied by escalated popular discontent from the security chaos situation in the neighborhoods of the city which is controlled by the regime forces, accompanied by assaults, beatings and killing by unknown gunmen against members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them inside the city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from local source that the last of these cases was at the noon of Thursday the 7th of September 2017, where the Syrian Observatory documented the killing of an NDF commander of the pro-regime by shooting by unknown gunmen in Wadi al-Thahab neighbourhood in Homs city, amid alert situation among the regime forces in attempt to capture the shooter, with tension in the neighbourhood and in other neighborhoods in Homs city because of this situation in the city, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented on the 4th of September the killing of an officer of the regime forces by shooting by unknown gunmen on the road of Homs-Tartous, this assassination came few days after the attack on a patrol was led by the same officer in Homs city, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 11th of August 2017 that an exchange of fire took place between members of the Russia trained-and-armed clan forces against members of Maghawir al-Badiyah Regiment, where the clash took place in Karm al-Loz area in the city, and confirmed information about the fall of injuries in the ranks of both parties.

These killers managed to flee into the city of Homs, where checkpoints of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them are set, and this came two days after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on 5th of September 2017 that the body of a member of the regime intelligence was found killed on the road to Asila town in the countryside of Hama, followed by a massacre in Marzaf area in the northern countryside of Hama, which killed 11 citizens including a woman, her son and his wife, and two of her grandchildren, in addition to 4 citizens of another family and another woman, all of them were killed in a massacre regime forces’ controlled areas in the northern countryside of Hama, where the SOHR documented the death of 11 civilians, including 3 women and 2 children, who were killed in al-Hawat massacre carried out by militiamen loyal to the regime forces, as they executed 11 citizens of the residents of the area, and local sources asserted that the attack on the area came after a body of a member of the intelligence services of the regime forces was found dead in the road between Asila and Hawa areas, and the regime forces accused the residents of al-Hawat of killing him.

This massacre created a state of tension among the people of al-Hawat area and the families of the Sunni victims, and also in the area where the Alawite attackers come from, amid resentment prevailing among the residents because of the massacre and the mass execution carried out by the militiamen loyal to the regime, with the absence of any strict reaction from the Syrian regime authorities and forces, while there are fears of escalation of tension that might be turned into a fight in the area located in the countryside of Muhradah northwest of Hama.