The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Security chaos continues in Idlib and the countryside connects to it through more detonations and targeting operations that left new human losses

The security chaos is continuing within Idlib province and the countryside connects to it in the adjacent provinces, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored today evening, the 6th of December 2018, the sound of 2 explosions in the western countryside of Aleppo and northern countryside of Idlib, where an IED planted in a vehicle, exploded in Atarib area which injured 2 children at least, also the sound of an explosion was heard in Maarrat Al-Nu’manin city, amid conflicting information about whether the explosion was caused by an IED explosion or the explosion of a grenade in a house in the area, while the SOHR monitored the death of 2 young men due to gunfire that targeted a vehicle they were driving, by unidentified gunmen, and it was not known whether the gunshots hit them or they (gunshots) caused an accident led to their death, and these actions come as a part of a series of ongoing security chaos within the controlled areas of the factions in Idlib, its vicinity and the countryside of the adjacent provinces, where active cells belonging to the organization with experienced cells that practise kidnapping, thefts and killing operations, resulted in the death of 404 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 102 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 258 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.