In 36 successive hours…13 assassinations, bombings and killing attempts leave 41 casualties and wounded of citizens and fighters in Idlib and its vicinity
Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the death of a citizen woman of the displaced people from Homs province, affected by the injury she had in the explosion of an IED in Al-Qosur area in Idlib city, that took place today, Saturday the 19th of January 2019, raising to 445, the number of people who were assassinated and killed at the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama, since the 26th of April 2018, the date of starting the security chaos to be escalated in the province, they are 2 unidentified persons, and another person who were killed in Idlib explosion, as well as the wife of an Uzbek commander and his son, in addition to 113 civilians including 14 children and 8 women, of who were assassinated through bomb explosions, IED detonations, shooting, abduction, murder and then throwing the bodies in remote areas, and 281 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 47 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 documented 13 assassinations, bombings and killing attempts in the recent 36 hours that left 41 casualties and wounded of citizens and fighters where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a loud explosion was heard in Kafrsajna town in the southern countryside of Idlib, it turned out to be caused by an IED explosion on the road between Kafrsajna and Hish when it was being dismantled, which injured a person, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a loud explosion in Idlib city, it was caused by a bomb explosion in a car near the al-Mohafaza Hospital, and intersected sources confirmed that the bombing targeted a commander in a Corps close to Turkey, which seriously injured him and also injured 4 others including his wife, while an IED exploded in a car of an Islamic faction, which injured a member in Mardebseh area, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that unidentified gunmen killed a member of a non-Syrian nationality in Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in Frika area in Jisr al-Shughur countryside, and then the group fled, also an explosion targeted one of the members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in Mardebseh area, where the explosion seriously injured a member, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored yesterday, Friday, 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 Kansafra town in Jabal al-Zawiyah 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 13 people including at least 11 members who died in the bombing, and about 8 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.