News Center – In the context of a series of abduction incidents and the absence of official transparency, the disappearance of Duha Rizq Asaad in the city of Homs has reignited fears of an increase in cases of women's abduction in Syrian areas under the control of HTS jihadists.

The city of Homs is experiencing escalating anxiety following the recording of a new disappearance case in the Al‑Sabil neighborhood. Duha Rizq Asaad, 36 years old, went missing on Sunday morning, May 17, after leaving her home to secure some household supplies.

According to local sources, communication with her was completely cut off from the moment she left, without any official statement explaining her fate or the circumstances of her disappearance.

The growing mystery surrounding her disappearance has sparked a wide wave of fear among residents of the neighborhood, who affirmed that abductions and disappearances are recurring in broad daylight, amid the absence of clear measures by the responsible authorities to limit this phenomenon.

Residents indicate that families are living in a state of daily terror, and that fear of the unknown has become part of daily life details.

The disappearance of Duha Asaad comes in the context of a series of similar cases that have targeted women and girls in various areas of Syria, where the phenomenon of women's abduction has become a top topic of street conversations, especially with the repeated appearance of missing women later in video recordings in which they affirm that they "left of their own free will," despite their families' insistence that they were kidnapped.

Notably, the most recent of these cases was the case of the young Alawite woman Batoul Alloush, which sparked widespread controversy after her disappearance while returning from Latakia to Baniyas.

Her family affirmed that she was kidnapped, while her father said he was pressured to deny the kidnapping narrative. Later, Batoul Alloush appeared in a video recording wearing a headscarf and saying that she had "migrated for the sake of God," but her appearance in a closed place with the presence of security elements raised great doubts about the extent of her freedom in making those statements.

Observers believe that the recurrence of these incidents, along with the absence of official transparency, fuels debate about the violations women are subjected to, and turns each new disappearance case into a "public opinion issue," as is happening today in Homs.