The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Areas in both Idlib and Aleppo countryside witness a detonation and gunfire within the ongoing security chaos in Idlib’s interior and vicinity after killing operations and assassinations that targeted hundreds of people

The province of Idlib and countryside around it, which are controlled by the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the “jihadis”, are witnessing continued security chaos amid the failure of the security system to control and confine it, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, monitored an explosion just before the midnight of Saturday – Sunday, in Atarib town in the western countryside of Aleppo, caused by an IED explosion near shops in the town, which caused material damage, the Syrian Observatory also monitored yesterday at midnight, heavy gunfire in Saraqib town in the eastern countryside of Idlib, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; the factions operating in the town observed a “van” suspected to be related to operations of kidnapping, killing and theft, where they chased it, but it did not stopped, so the factions opened fire on it, without information about human losses, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday, Saturday the 10th of November 2018, that an explosion was heard in al-Atareb town in the western countryside of Aleppo after midnight of yesterday, it turned out to be caused by the explosion of an IED in the town, but no information about casualties so far, while the Syrian Observatory published on the 7th of November 2018 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that unidentified gunmen targeted a fighter of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham in Tell Mannas area in the eastern countryside of Maarrat Al-Nu’man city, in the southern countryside of Idlib province, which caused his death by the gunfire of the unidentified gunmen, while the SOHR monitored the assassination of a commander in Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham believed to be Moroccan, after being shot in the northern countryside of Jisr Al-Shaughur city, while the Syrian Observatory monitored that the National Liberation Front raided a headquarters of a gang that practice theft, plundering and looting, where they arrested 10 persons and confiscated vehicles and the contents (stolen things) that were in the headquarters, and the detainees were taken to unidentified destination.

And with the fall of more human losses, it rose to at least 387, 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 90 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 253 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 Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 7th of November 2018, that the security chaos continues to hit areas in Idlib province and the surrounding countryside which are controlled by the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and “jihadi” factions, underlining their failure control the security and preservation the lives of the resident citizens and displaced people in these areas, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored unidentified gunmen targeting the car of a manager of a local relief organization on the road between the towns of Sarmada and al-Dana in the northern countryside of Idlib, which injured him, after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that unidentified gunmen robbed yesterday after the midnight of Monday, an office of a relieving organization, in Tal Al-Karama town in the northern countryside of Idlib, where they tied the guards and stole the contents of the office and the money that was in it, while the SOHR published yesterday that the security chaos is still continuing in Idlib province, leaving every time more human losses, through assassinations that are carried out at varying techniques, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that unidentified gunmen targeted a vehicle on the road to Al-Janudiyah in the northern countryside of Jisr Al-Shughur city, in the western sector of Idlib countryside, which resulted in the killing of 2 persons believed to be fighters as well as the injury of another.