Idlib’s security chaos leaves more human losses raising to 66 citizens out of 341 persons who have been assassinated since late April 2018
Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the security chaos is still devastating the province of Idlib and the countryside around it, controlled by the rebel and Islamic factions and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, and claims the lives of citizens and fighters, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the body of a 11-year-old child was found in Maarrat Misrin town in the northern countryside Idlib, and his body was dumped near one of the mosques in the town, after he was kidnapped about 2 weeks ago, raising to 341, the number of people who were 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 66 civilians including 10 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 237 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 36 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 morning of the 5th of October 2018, that as the security chaos continues to escalate in areas controlled by the factions and Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in the Syrian north, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a new assassination, where a fighter of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham was killed as a result of shooting by unidentified gunmen at Aleppo highway south of Maarrat al-Nu’man city, as part of continued targeting and assassinations in the area, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored yesterday night clashes between unknown gunmen and the faction of Jaysh al-Ahrar of the National Liberation Front, where this attack is the first of its kind on a site and a checkpoint of Jaysh al-Ahrar west of al-Tliha area east of Taftanaz town in the eastern countryside of Idlib, where clashes took place between both parties before the attackers fled away, but no information about casualties until the moment, and it is not known whether the attackers were of members and cells of the “Islamic State” organization or others, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also documented the death of at least 80 members of ISIS and its cells who have been killed since the end of April 2018, of Syrian, Iraqi, and other non-Syrian nationalities, including at least 41 where executed by slaughtering them or directly shooting them, while the rest were killed during raids and exchange of gunfire between these cells and members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in the areas of Salqin, Sarmin, Sahel al-Rouj and several other areas in the countryside of Idlib, the last of which was what the SOHR monitored on the 20th of September 2018, where Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham executed 5 persons, sources confirmed that they were executed Al-Zirbah area in the southern countryside of Aleppo, on charge of “belonging to cells of the Islamic State organization”, and members of Tahrir Al-Sham shot them, after they were arrested previously within the campaign of arrests which targeted tens of persons on charge of these accusations, and which sometimes witnessed violent clashes between members of these cells and members of Tahrir Al-Sham, as well as the executions that used to be carried out directly, or through mass targeting to positions and headquarters of these cells, and this is the first execution to be carried out within the Russian – Turkish demilitarized area, which was specified within the Russian – Turkish agreement that recently reached.