7 months of security chaos witnessed the assassination of 400 civilians, fighters, and a leader of different nationalities and concluded with an explosion inside Idlib city
Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: a violent explosion shook Idlib city, local sources said that it was caused by an explosion at an arms store on al-Jala’a Street in the city, which injured at least one person, and this explosion coincided with the security chaos of Idlib province and its surroundings, where the security chaos continues to cast its miserable scary present and its mysterious booby-trapped future over people of the province, whose fears have increased after the inability of the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and the “jihadis” to control the security chaos that has been carried out by active ISIS cells and other cells responsible for murder and kidnapping over the past 7 months, since it escalated on the 26th of April 2018.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of at least 400 people in 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.
The Syrian Observatory monitored that the number of casualties of the organization and the cells rose to 105 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 44 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, 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.
Security forces in Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions of Syrian and non-Syrian nationality have repeatedly failed to control this security chaos, despite their security operations that caused the arrest of cells belong to the “Islamic State” organization, and other cells responsible for kidnappings, assassination attempts, and assassinations, but these operations have not been able to achieve any complete results, but the cells have remained as it is wandering within the areas in which they have caused an uncontrolled security, where the cells are reducing their activity with each military operation, and get active again as security operation ends.