The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham storms a headquarters of a cell of the organization in Idlib countryside, sets 2 captives of Al-Muwahhidun Al-Druze free and kills 6 members at least of the cells

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the security chaos continues in Idlib province and its vicinity in conjunction with the ongoing security campaigns against the cells which are responsible for expanding the scope of security chaos in the province, and the Syrian Observatory monitored the sound of an explosion in the recent hours in Maarzita town in the southern countryside of Idlib, caused by the explosion of a grenade thrown by unidentified gunman in the town, while the Syrian Observatory learned that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham stormed a headquarters of ISIS cells, in Maarrat Misrin town in the northern sector of Idlib countryside, where clashes took place between Tahrir Al-Sham against the members of these cells, which resulted in the death of 6 members of the cells while 2 citizen women of Al-Muwahhidun Al-Druze who are descended from Maarrat Al-Akhawan village, was sat free, where they were held by the cell.

And with the fall of more human losses in the ranks of the organization and the cells which are responsible for assassinations, it rose to 86 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.

The Syrian Observatory also documented the death of 341 persons at least 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.