In the continuation of the security chaos and assassinations, Attacks by “ISIS cells” target checkpoints of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham within several areas of Idlib province

Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: a checkpoint of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham was attacked by unidentified gunmen, in the vicinity of Kafr Nabl town in the southern sector of Idlib countryside after midnight of yesterday, where clashes took place between both parties but no information about casualties, also another checkpoint of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham east of Saraqib was attacked after midnight of yesterday, and the clashes between both parties did not result in human losses, where the attackers are believed to belong to cells belong to the “Islamic State” organization, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday, Wednesday, that the state of security chaos has been continuing in Idlib province, and in the areas connected to it of the western countryside of Aleppo, as a result of the inability of the factions operating in the province to arrest the cells which carry out the assassinations whether by detonating IEDs or booby trapped vehicles, shooting, or abduction and murder, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the sound of a violent explosion in Maarrat Al-Nu’man city in the southern countryside of Idlib, caused by the explosion of an IED in a vehicle of a military commander of Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement, which only caused material damage, without information about casualties, while one of the local commanders of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and he is one of those who are in charge of the booby traps, was assassinated after being targeted by unidentified gunmen in the area of the western countryside of Al-Mohandesin in the western sector of Aleppo countryside, and the sources confirmed that the commander was detained by an Islamic movement operating in the western countryside of Aleppo, and he was released less than 72 hours ago, amid continued alertness by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in searching for persons who belong to these cells that spread chaos in the area.

And with more casualties, it rose to 163 people at least, in Idlib countryside and both Aleppo and Hama countryside, they are 37 civilians including 6 children and 2 women, of who were assassinated through bomb explosions, IED detonations, shooting, abduction, murder and then throwing the bodies in remote areas, and 111 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 15 fighters of Uzbek, Asian, and Caucasian nationalities have been assassinated in the same ways since the 26th of April 2018, also the assassination attempts have injured tens of people with varying severity, while the factions stepped up their raids and operations against sleeper cells they accused of belonging to the “Islamic State” organization. And among the total number of casualties there are 83 persons, and they are: 19 civilians including a child and a woman, 60 Syrian fighters, and 4 Uzbek fighters; were killed by shooting and IED explosions in Idlib and the countryside of Hama and Aleppo.