The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The security chaos in Idleb and the surrounding countryside continues and leaves new casualties, raising to about 415 the number of who were killed since late April 2018

An explosion shook Kafr Halab in the western countryside of Aleppo at midnight of yesterday, it turned out to be caused by a an IED explosion near a mosque in the town, which caused material damage but no information yet about casualties, and in the same context, the bodies of 2 fighters were found today, Wednesday, the 12th of December 2018, on Harim road in the countryside of Idlib, within the framework of the continuous security chaos in Idlib province and the surrounding countryside, and with more casualties it rose to 413, 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 106 civilians including 14 children and 7 women, of who were assassinated through bomb explosions, IED detonations, shooting, abduction, murder and then throwing the bodies in remote areas, and 263 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 for Human Rights published yesterday that the SOHR learned that unidentified gunmen opened fire on a military commander in the 1st Coastal Village on the road to Jisr Al-Shughur area, in the western sector in Idlib countryside, which injured him seriously, while the Syrian Observatory monitored that unidentified gunmen attacked a family in the area of Tal Tuqan in the eastern countryside of Idlib, and kidnapped a man and his daughter, where their fate is unknown so far, the Syrian Observatory also monitored the sound of an explosion in the market of Harem town, in the northern sector of Idlib countryside, it was caused by a grenade thrown by an unidentified gunman in the area which caused material damage, without information about casualties, while the body of a man was found in Maataram area near Areha city within the southern sector in Idlib countryside, where he was killed about 2 weeks ago and his body was dumped in the bushes of the area, and medical sources confirmed that he was killed by the gunfire of those kidnapped him, and with the fall of more human losses, it rose to 411, 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 105 civilians including 14 children and 7 women, of who were assassinated through bomb explosions, IED detonations, shooting, abduction, murder and then throwing the bodies in remote areas, and 261 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 Observation for Human Rights published hours ago, that it monitored that unknown gunmen assassinated 2 members of Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement, on the road between the areas of al-Tah and Tahtaya in the southeastern countryside of Idlib Province, and the Syrian Observatory monitored that unidentified gunmen killed a citizen from al-Majdaliya village in the southern sector of Idlib countryside, where he was killed by those who kidnapped him after his family failed to secure the “required ransom,”, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that it monitored finding the body of a commander in Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, his body was dumped on the outskirts of al-Tawamah village in the western countryside of Aleppo, but the causes and circumstances of his death still unknown until the moment, while a bomb exploded in Marshamsha town in the eastern countryside of Maarrat al-Nu’man, it targeting one of the aviation and telecommunications observatories, but no information about casualties, also the Syrian Observatory monitored the assassination of a medic from al-Jninah village in the countryside of Hama, where he was shot near the Maarrat al-Nu’man city and his car was stolen, and the Syrian Observatory also documented 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.