Despite truces and calm, the security chaos in Idlib and its surroundings continues and enters the 9th month, carrying which it the bodies of 416 civilians, fighters, and leaders of different nationalities
The escalated assassinations have completed their 8th consecutive month, where Idlib Province and its surrounding areas of the Syrian north have suffered during this period since the 26th of April 2018, until the 27th of December of 2018, suffered assassinations that escalated gradually and unevenly, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored hundreds of assassinations and hundreds of killing attempts by deferent methods like targeting by gunfire, kidnapping, killing, strangling, detonation of explosive devices, detonated of booby-trapped vehicles, and in the last month stabbing using sharp tools within Idlib Province and its surroundings, within the areas that are under the control of the “jihadi,” rebel, and Islamic factions.
The Syrian Observatory monitored the latest incidents of this security chaos on Thursday morning, where a violent explosion took place in Maarrat al-Nu’man city in the southern countryside of Idlib, it turned out that it was caused by the explosion of an IED in a car in the city, which damaged property but no information about casualties.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented during 8 months of violence, the assassination of 416 people, they 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 107 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 44 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.
The 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.