The assassination of a Gulf commander and his escort raises to 379, the number of citizens and Syrian and non-Syrian fighters and commander who were assassinated in Idlib and its vicinity
Security chaos continues in Idlib province and the countryside linked to it of the neighboring provinces, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored an IED explosion in Al-Dana town in the northern countryside of Idlib, near the Syrian – Turkish border, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, also, unidentified gunmen have assassinated a field commander in the ranks of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham of a Gulf nationality believed to be Qatari, with his escort after they were targeted by unidentified gunmen by a grenade they threw on his house in Al-Mohandessin area in the western suburbs of Aleppo city, while a young man was found dead and his body was dumped between the villages of Al-Ankawi and Al-Tanjarah, in the north-western countryside of Hama, raising to 379, the number of persons 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 86 civilians including 13 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 249 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 42 fighters of Somali, Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian, Turkish 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 for Human Rights published on the 24th of October 2018, that the security chaos continues within Idlib province, causing more human losses, along with the ongoing killing operations by unidentified gunmen and cells belong to the “Islamic Sate” organization, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the body of a young man was found in the agricultural lands between Maasaran and al-Ghadfa towns, in the eastern countryside of Idlib province, without information about the his identity or the reasons for killing him, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 21st of October 2018, that security chaos is continuing in Idlib province and the countryside around it controlled by the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and the “Jihadis”, which became the obsession of the residents and the displaced people who live in the area, where the Syrian Observatory monitored that unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle, shot a displaced person in Zardana town in the northern countryside of Idlib, which killed him instantly, and the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that 4 persons at least were killed including 2 citizens one of them is an 8-year-old kid, as well as 2 fighters intersected sources confirmed that on of them is of an Asian nationality, also the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of injured citizens and fighters who have been wounded seriously, amid information about others killed in the bombing, that was caused by an explosion in a car at al-Qosur neighborhood area within the area where Uzbek and Turkistani fighters as well as their houses and headquarters are located, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 20th of October 2018, that unknown gunmen abducted a displaced man in Sarmin town east of Idlib city, where he was found dead this morning and his body was thrown south of the town. And in the north of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented yesterday, Friday the death of a child by random bullets due to an armed quarrel between two groups of the factions in Shmarekh camp in Azaz area in the northern countryside of Aleppo, the sources said that the exchange of gunfire took place between gunmen tried to steal vehicles from the camp and between gunmen from the area, where this armed fight left killed a boy who is no more than 9 years old of the displaced people of Tal Rifaat town, in a continuous failure by the factions to control the security of their areas.