The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Unidentified gunmen target a car of the rebel and Islamic factions in the southern countryside of Idlib leave wounded

Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: an explosion shook the countryside of Maarrat East al-Nu’man on Monday morning, the 26th of November 2018, it turned out to be caused by an explosion of an improvised explosive device in a vehicle at the road of al-Halba – Marshmarin, which caused injuries and material damage, this comes as part of the continuous security chaos within areas of control of the factions in Idlib province and the surrounding countryside, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the fall of more casualties who were the victims of the continued security chaos in Idlib province and its vicinity, where the Syrian Observatory monitored that the body of a man was found in Khan Al-Sabil Cemetery near Saraqeb town, after he was kidnapped in Al-Sawami’ area in Maarrat Al-Nu’man countryside about 48 hours ago, where he was killed by the kidnappers, without information so far about the reasons for killing him, raising to at least 400, the number of people who were assassinated and killed at the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama, since the 26th of April 2018, they are the wife of an Uzbek commander and his son, in addition to 100 civilians including 14 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 256 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.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published last night that it monitored the finding of the bodies of 4 men who were killed and their bodies were dumped on the road between Idlib city and Bantanah village, and the party that carried out this killing operation is unknown until now, where they were killed by being shot at their head, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored tension and fear prevail Idlib Province and the southern sector, particularly among the activists and workers of the international organizations, against the backdrop of the double assassination of the prominent activists in the Syrian peace movement, Raed al-Fares and Hammond Jneid, and the sources stressed that the fear comes from the escalation of assassinations and the repeated assassination of more activists working in the area, within the framework of the security chaos that the rebel and Islamic factions were not able to control it or even reduce it, and the SOHR published today morning that the assassination of al-Fares and Jneid took place on Friday, the 23rd of November 2018, when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in Kafr Nubl town in the western countryside of Maarrat al-Nu’man city in the southern countryside of Idlib Province at noon, and then the car escaped, without the security authorities being able to identify or apprehend the executors, where the shooting caused them serious injuries and they died affected by these wounds, where they were known for their positions on the arrests of factions, the sole control of a party, and the security violations and abuses of the forces present in Idlib and the Syrian north.