The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Tahrir Al-Sham seizes a warehouse belong to ISIS cells east of Idlib prepared for the booby-trappings and making IEDs

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from reliable sources that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham managed to seize a warehouse used for booby trapping and making IEDs by cells of the “Islamic State” organization in Sarmin city in the eastern countryside of Idlib, and the SOHR published on the 30th of June 2019, that it documented the killing of a member of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in an IED explosion in his car in Mastouma town near Idlib city on Saturday morning, the 29th of June 2019, and in the same context, yesterday evening the body of a fighter of a Jihadi faction was found shot dead on the road between Turmanin – al-Dana in the northern countryside of Idlib, and in the same context, unknown gunmen launched an RPG shell on headquarters of the Turkestani Islamic party, which caused injuries in their ranks in the area between Harem – Salqeen northwest of Idlib, and with the fall of more casualties it rose to 571, the number of people who were killed in the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama, since the 26th of April 2018, the date of starting the security chaos to be escalated in the province, they are the wife of an Uzbek commander and another child was with them, and the attorney-general of the Ministry of Justice of the Rescue Government, in addition to 160 civilians including 21 children and 12 women, of who were assassinated through bomb explosions, IED detonations, shooting, abduction, murder and then throwing the bodies in remote areas, and 350 fighters of Syrian nationality belong to Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, al-Sham Corps, the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Izza, and other factions operating in Idlib, and 61 fighters of Somali, Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian, Turkish and Caucasian nationalities have been assassinated in the same ways, also the assassination attempts have injured tens of people with varying severity.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham carried out a new security operation against cells of the “Islamic State” Organization which are spread in Idlib province, in the light of the great security chaos that has been prevailing the area, where a force of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham raided on Saturday, the 29th of June 2019, Sarmin town in Idlib countryside, and the Syrian Observatory learned that a member of one of the Organization’s cells blew himself up during the raid, but no information yet about the results of the operation, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that a violent explosion was heard in Idlib city today evening, Friday the 28th of June 2019, it turned out to be caused by an IED that exploded while being planted by an unidentified member near Al-Furqan Mosque in the city centre, which caused his immediate death as well as the injury of a citizen, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published today evening, that it monitored new explosions today, Friday, within the controlled areas of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, where an IED exploded in the vehicle of a commander in the National Liberation Front in the western neighborhood of Saraqeb city, which injured him seriously, in addition to the injury of 5 fighters accompanied him some of whom have seriously wounded, and in the same context, an IED exploded in a Pickup vehicle affiliated to “Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham” in Kafr Nawan in the western countryside of Aleppo leaving several fighters wounded, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday evening, that a violent explosion was heard today evening in Zardana village in the northern countryside of Idlib, it turned out to be caused by an IED explosion in the vehicle of a commander in Jaysh Al-Ahrar, which injured him seriously, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published today, Thursday, the 27th of June 2019, that an explosion shook Shabur village south of Saraqib town in the eastern countryside of Idlib, it was caused by an explosion in a house of a fighter from a jihadi group, which killed the fighter and injured 2 of his children, but no information until the moment whether the explosion was caused by booby-trapping his house by an unidentified people, or if it was caused by the explosion of an IED while the fighter was preparing it, and the Syrian Observatory published that an explosion shook Idlib city morning of Tuesday the 25th of June 2019, it was caused by the explosion of an IED in a car of a Sharia judge of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, which seriously injured him, also the explosion took place in al-Debbit neighborhood in Idlib city, and the Observatory documented the death of a media activist displaced from Al-Tal city in Rif Dimashq, affected by the injury he had as a result of an IED explosion in a vehicle affiliated to people work in the relief field on the 17th of June 2019, in the border city with Iskenderun, Sarmada, north of Idlib.

And the SOHR published on the 22nd of June 2019, that it learned that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham managed to arrest a cell of 4 members affiliated to the “Islamic State” organization, while raiding a house where the cell’s members were located in the border city with Iskenderun, Sarmada, north of Idlib, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 21st of June 2019, that a violent explosion shook the border area with Iskenderun just before the midnight of Friday – Saturday the 22nd of June 2019, it was caused by an IED explosion near a military headquarters of “Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham” on the road between Turmanin and Hazrah on the administrative border between Idlib and Aleppo provinces, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; the explosion resulted in the injury of several fighters of Tahrir Al-Sham in addition to causing material damage in the place where the explosion took place, and in the same context, unidentified gunmen opened fire on 2 fighters of the jihadi factions traveling on a motorcycle on the road between Salqin and Harem north-west of Idlib, which resulted in the killing of one of them and injured the other seriously, and the SOHR documented on the 17th of June 2019, an explosion was heard in Sarmada city north of Idlib at the border with Iskenderun, it was caused by an IED targeted a car of people work in the relief field, which injuring 2 people, and this comes as part of chaos accompanied the insecurity through bombings, targeting, and assassinations, as well as kidnappings and robberies in areas of control of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions in Idlib province and the surrounding countryside, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 8th of June 2019 that a violent explosion was heard in Jisr al-Shughur city in the western countryside of Idlib today, it turned out to be caused by the explosion of an munition depot belongs to the Islamic Turkestani Party, which caused the injury of at least 4 fighters and caused physical damage to neighboring buildings, amid fires in some of the lands around the depot, but no information until now about the causes of the explosion, and in the same context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored this morning an explosion in al-Dana city in the northern countryside of Idlib, it was caused by an IED explosion planted inside a transporting vehicle parked on al-Kahraba’a Street in the city, which seriously injured at least one citizen.

The Syrian Observatory published on the 2nd of June 2019 that in the context of the continuous security chaos in areas of control of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored an explosion in Turmanin town which is at the border with Iskenderun in Idlib countryside, it was caused by an IED explosion in a car of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, which killed a member, and the Syrian Observatory published today that more explosions shook several areas in Idlib province, where an IED exploded in Idlib city, which caused material damage but no information about casualties, also another IED exploded in Sarmada town at the border with Iskenderun north of Idlib, while a weapon arsenal of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham exploded at the outskirts of al-Hamama and Amoud in the countryside of Jisr al-Shughur city, which caused substantial material damage but no information about casualties yet, and the Syrian Observatory published hours ago that 2 explosions hit Idlib province after midnight of yesterday, where an IED exploded at the international highway near Maarrat al-Nu’man, it targeting a commander of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham but no information about casualties, also another IED exploded in a car in al-Sheikh Thuluth neighborhood in Idlib city, but also no information about injuries until the moment, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the security chaos continues in areas of control of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions in Idlib province and the countryside around it, where the Syrian Observatory documented the killing of a leader of the National Liberation Front in the explosion of an IED in his car in Orem al-Kubra town in the western countryside of Aleppo, also another IED exploded on the road between Atma and Aqrabat north of Idlib.