At the bombing site in Idlib city, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham carries out a mass execution of 12 members of cells belong to ISIS in retaliation for the death of its members and raises the number of casualties to 122
Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Idlib Province and the surrounding countryside which is controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, continues to witness the aftermath of the assassination and murder of the booby-trapped vehicle which targeted a site of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham at Mutlaq roundabout at the southern entrance of Idlib city on the 18th of January 2019, which killed and injured about 20 people most of them were members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, including 13 died mostly members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the execution of 12 members of the “Islamic State” Organization who were detained by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, where the Syrian Observatory monitored an execution carried out at the bombing site on January the 18th of January 2019, against 12 members of the cells, where Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham closed all roads leading to the execution place and surrounded the area until finishing the mass execution, which is the second announced execution within 72 hours, after the execution that was carried out about 72 hours ago against 4 members of these cells, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham continue to carry out searches for planners and bombers amid raids and arrests, the latest of which was monitored by the Syrian Observatory at dawn on Sunday, the 20th of January, in Sarmin town east of Idlib city, where members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham raided a house in the town, they said that it belongs to members of sleeper cells of the “Islamic State” Organization, of which the booby-trapped car that targeted the checkpoint came out, and they arrested 3 people and then took them to an unknown destination until the moment, and reliable sources confirmed that these assassinations and bombings came in a response by cells that belong to the “Islamic State” organization in Idlib on an execution carried out by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham against 4 members of the cells, who Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham accused of belonging to the “Islamic State” Organization, where they were shot by members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham with pistols.
And as more members of these cells are executed, it rose to 122, the number of 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 62 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.
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.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that 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 444, 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.