The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After the assassination of hundreds of civilians and fighters, new bombings and kidnappings in Idlib Province and its surroundings within the continuous security chaos

Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: areas of Idlib Province that are under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions; are witnessing a continuous chaos despite all the security operations of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions, after which hundreds were arrested and tens were killed, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored new targeting within the continuous security chaos, where 2 fighters of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham were injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in Ihsim town in Jabal al-Zawiyah, also, a vehicle believed to be belong to the factions was targeted by unknown gunmen at the northern entrance of Jisr al-Shughur city, but no information about casualties, while unknown people kidnapped one of the officials of the “Artillery Brigade” of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, in Jabal al-Zawiyah area and he was taken to an unknown destination. And the Syrian Observatory published yesterday Thursday that the security chaos is continuing in Idlib province and the countryside around it which is controlled by the rebel and Islamic factions and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, increasing the security gap in the area despite all the campaigns carried out by the factions to control the security in it, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the body of a man was found shot dead in the outskirts of Maasaran town in the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, raising to 305, the number of people who have been assassinated in Idlib countryside and both Aleppo and Hama countryside, since the 26th of April 2018, they are the wife of an Uzbek commander and his son, in addition to 60 civilians including 9 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 211 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 31 fighters of Somali, Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian and Caucasian nationalities have been assassinated in the same ways, 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 the Syrian Observatory published on the 11th of September 2018, that it monitored the continued security chaos in Idlib, where the SOHR monitored in the recent hours, an IED explosion near a police station, in Salqin town in the north-western sector of Idlib countryside, which resulted in the death of 5 persons including 2 citizens, while unidentified gunman opened fire on a vehicle carried citizens who were preparing to leave to the Turkish territory with the help of smugglers, where the gunfire which was carried out at the entrance of Jisr Al-Shughur city, resulted in the fall of a number of wounded some of them have seriously injured.

While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham has arrested some people, including an important commander in the “Islamic State” organization, believed to be the former commander of the area of the eastern countryside of Hama, where he was arrested and taken to one of the headquarters of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, while the SOHR monitored in the recent days, that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham has arrested a number of members including 2 commanders of the groups of the organization, in the northern countryside of Idlib, near the Syrian – Turkish border, while the searching processes are continuing in order to reach more information about the places where these cells are located, those cells that carry out mass assassinations through which hundreds of people were killed and injured in Idlib province and both northern and western countryside of Hama and Aleppo.