2 murders and assassination in Idlib countryside raise to 458 at least, the number of assassinated civilians, fighters, and commanders of Syrian, Arab and western nationalities
Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the body of a fighter from Jaysh al-Nusra of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham was found dead by unknown people, he was thrown on the road between al-Mastouma town and Ariha city but no information about the circumstances of his death, also a body of a boy under the age of 18 was found killed near Kaftin Jabal al-Summaq village in the northwestern countryside of Idlib, after being kidnapped about 10 days ago from his home in the village, and raising to 458, the number of people killed in 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 the wife of an Uzbek commander and his son, in addition to 120 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 288 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 48 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.
Also the explosions, assassinations, and kidnappings continue in these areas, where a violent explosion was heard yesterday night in Harim area in the northern countryside of Idlib, it turned out to be caused by an IED explosion in a car on the road linking cities of Salqin and Harim in the countryside itself, but no information about casualties, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 5th of February 2019 that security chaos continues within Idlib Province and its surroundings, producing more bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations which each time cause human casualties, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a heavy explosion in Ma’arrat Mesrin area in the northeastern sector of Idlib countryside, caused by the detonating 2 IEDs planted by unidentified gunmen on the road of Ma’arrat Mesrin – Batbu, which caused material damage but no information about casualties, and the Syrian Observatory published hours ago that the Syrian Observatory monitored more of the results of the security chaos in Idlib province and around it, where the Syrian Observatory learned from intersected sources that unknown gunmen kidnapped a director of one of the camp gatherings in Idlib countryside in the Syrian north, but no information about who carried out the kidnapping.
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented that it rose to 124, 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.