The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

12 killing operation and attempted assassination in the last hours killed and wounded 32 people in response to executing 4 of IS cells raise the number of assassinations to 441

Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:  the calm returned to Idlib Province, after a day of the security chaos which suddenly and dramatically escalated, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored many of the assassinations and bombings that reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that they came in response by cells belong to the “Islamic State” Organization in Idlib, which carried out hundreds of previous assassinations, on an execution carried out by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham against 4 members of the cells who were accused by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham of belonging to the “Islamic State” Organization, where they were shot by members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham with guns, and the Syrian Observatory monitor on Friday, the 18th of January 2019, targeting a vehicle belongs to Jaysh al-Izza in Khan Shaykhun city in the southern countryside of Idlib, which injured a group commander in the rebel army which operates in the area and in north of Hama, also the Syrian Observatory monitored finding the body of a young man in the vicinity of Jabal al-Zawiyah town in the southern sector of Idlib countryside, but no information about the circumstances of his death, while the car of an activist was targeted in ​​Korin area in the countryside of Idlib, which injured him, while 3 members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham were killed by shooting at one of them and detonating an IED with the two others in Khan al-Sobol area, also 2 members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham were assassinated by targeting in ​​Darat Azza area in the western Aleppo countryside connected with Idlib countryside, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the injury of 3 members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in shooting by unidentified gunmen on the road to Sarmada town in the northern countryside of Idlib, where two of the wounded suffer serious injuries, while the Syrian Observatory monitored an attack against a commander in Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, at Ma’arrat Mesrin in the northern countryside of Idlib, where the attackers stabbed and killed the commander with sharp tools, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the detonation of a booby-trapped vehicle in a site of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham near al-Mutlaq roundabout in the southern part of Idlib city, where the explosion killed 11 people including at least 7 members who died in the bombing, and about 10 others were injured, and it is not known whether the remaining 4 are civilians or fighters, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation.

And with the fall of more casualties, it rose to 441 the number of people who were assassinated and killed at the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama, since the 26th of April 2018, until today the 10th of January 2019, the date in which the rescue government imposed its complete control over Idlib and its surroundings, they are the wife of an Uzbek commander and his son, in addition to 112 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 277 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 46 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 110 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 50 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.