The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

IEDs and mine explosions north of Aleppo and in its northeastern countryside kills and injures several people including the commander of Marea Military Council

Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored today, Sunday, the 4th of November 2018, the explosion of an IED in Jarez area in the northern countryside of Aleppo, which injured the commander of Marea Military Council, also an IED exploded in a car belongs to “al-Sjidoun” group of al-Jabha al-Shamiyyah, which injured one person on the road between Kaljibrin and Marea in the northern countryside of Aleppo, also a mine exploded in the Tadef area in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, which killed a child girl and injured another child seriously.

The Syrian Observatory published about week ago that an explosion was heard in Al-Bab area in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, caused by and IED explosion targeted a vehicle near a mosque on Al-Bab city, which is controlled by the forces of the Turkish-backed  Operation of the “Euphrates Shield”, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored on the 17th of October 2018, an assassination attempt which targeted a commander in a rebel brigade operating under the banner of the “Euphrates Shield” Operation forces, after being shot by unidentified gunmen, in the area of Sajur front, which injured him seriously, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 8th of October 2018, that clashes took place between members of the Free Police against unidentified gunmen, near Azaz city, where the clashes resulted in the injury of 2 children after they were hit by gunshots, while the Syrian Observatory has received confirmed information reporting that 5 fighters at least were killed and injured in Maryamin area in the same countryside, including 4 members were killed by gunfire that sources confirmed that it was caused by a person in Maryamin area, where sources suggested that the murderer is one of the fighters of the same area, within a new episode of the series of security chaos, where 5 persons including 2 children were killed as a result of the violent explosion which hit Azaz city in the northern countryside of Aleppo, last Saturday, at the entrance of the Industrial Area, in the outskirts of Azaz city in the northern countryside of Aleppo, on the noon of Saturday the 6th of October 2018, and the SOHR published at that time that the explosion took place at the entrance to the Industrial Area on the outskirts of Azaz city, where the sources confirmed that the explosion was caused by a booby-trapped explosion that was heard from about 2 km away, causing the destruction and combustion of several vehicles and cars near a fuel tank in the industrial area, and this explosion comes in a new episode of the series of explosions that targeted the northern and northeastern countryside of Aleppo Province, and confirmed information about the number of casualties may rise due to the presence of missing people and injured citizens.

Raising to at least 17, the number of people assassinated since the 30th of September 2018, they are: an elderly man, 5 citizens including 2 children, a civilian policeman, and 10 fighters including 4 members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, who were assassinated in the northern countryside of Aleppo.