The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After the assassinations turned from being individual and random into organized mass murder…an assassination targets 2 prominent commanders one of whom is of Arab nationality

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the sleeper cells of the “Islamic State” organization, and other groups secretly operating inside Idlib, are continuing their assassinations against citizens and Syrian and non-Syrian fighters and commanders, where the SOHR monitored in the past few hours, an assassination which targeted 2 commanders of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, one of whom is Egyptian, intersected sources said that he is Abu Al-Yaqazan Al-Masri, who is one of the most prominent commanders in Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, and who had a great role in fighting against the major factions operating in the Syrian North, and the assassination attempt resulted in the injury of at least one other commander.

And the Syrian Observatory published on the 20th of July, that it monitored the Egyptian leader Abu al-Yaqzan; the Egyptian leader in Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham coming out and walking among the buses that are carrying the displaced people of al-Fu’ah and Kafriya, after they left al-Fu’ah and Kafriya and before they enter regime forces’-controlled areas, where Abu al-Yaqzan said: “where are the planes of Putin and the tanks of Hezbollah, where are the fighters of the al-Nujabaa movement, you are getting out of Idlib humiliated, you have no standing in Idlib oh Rawafid, oh time write, put your face in the mud because Bashar the dog and Putin couldn’t break the siege off you, 9 months of battles in al-Eis hill and in these hills until we repel you, and this is your status followers of Bashar the dog and Putin the dog, their status for them is rusted buses, and their hearts have been taken out thanks to God, Putin tried, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards tried, the Lebanese Hezbollah tried, and the army of the dog Bashar tried to break the siege of these, but they couldn’t, were the mujahideen repelled them in battles lasted 9 months”.

While the SOHR published today the 21st of August 2018, that Idlib province is witnessing the escalation of assassinations from individual assassinations to mass assassinations involving several fighters at once, and this type of assassination began since the dawn of yesterday, the 20th of August 2018, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a mass assassination this noon, Tuesday, the 21st of August 2018 that unidentified gunmen assassinated 3 members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham on a checkpoint in Sahl al-Rouj area in the countryside of Idlib, preceded by the assassination of 2 members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham on the road of Armanaz – Kafr Takharim and others were injured, also 3 members were injured near Taftanaz after being targeted by an explosive device, raising to at least 13, the number of people assassinated since Monday the 20th of August 2018, they are 2 fighters of Hurras al-Dien Organization, 8 members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and 3 fighters of Jaysh al-Nukhba, and with more human casualties it rises to at least 283, the number of people who were assassinated in Idlib countryside and both Aleppo and Hama countryside, they are the wife of an Uzbek commander and his son, in addition to 55 civilians including 8 children and 6 women, of who were assassinated through bomb explosions, IED detonations, shooting, abduction, murder and then throwing the bodies in remote areas, and 197 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 29 fighters of Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian 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.