The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham arrest members of al-Sham Corps and Ahrar al-Sham north of Idlib after accusing them of firing at one of its members in Harbanush village

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored tension in Harbanush village in the northern sector of Idlib countryside, following raids carried out by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in the village, after establishing several checkpoints, and reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory that Tahrir al-Sham arrested members of al-Sham Corps and Ahrar al-Sham Movement -including a leader- after being accused of firing at a member of the village on Sunday evening, amid popular dissatisfaction with the continued rivalry between the factions controlling Idlib and the surrounding countryside, in the light of the underway security chaos, and the Syrian Observatory published on Sunday evening that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the bodies of 2 persons were found near Muhambal area in the western sector of Idlib countryside, where they were killed and dumped in the area, without information so far about the circumstances and nature of their death, in the frame of the ongoing security chaos and disorder within the areas of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and the factions in Idlib and the countryside surrounding and connected to it, thus, it rose to 563, the number of people who were 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 another child was with them, and the attorney-general of the Ministry of Justice of the Rescue Government, in addition to 178 civilians including 23 children and 16 women, of who were assassinated through bomb explosions, IED detonations, shooting, abduction, murder and then throwing the bodies in remote areas, and 334 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 52 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.

And the Syrian Observatory published this morning that it monitored the rise in number of casualties in the ranks of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham after the operation it carried out yesterday east of Idlib, where it rose to 7 at least, the number members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham who were killed during clashes against gunmen in Farwan village  in the eastern countryside of Idlib on Saturday morning, after a raid carried out by Tahrir al-Sham in search for wanted people in the village, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored today a new incident within the ongoing security chaos in the controlled areas of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and the factions in the province of Idlib and the surrounding countryside, in the first day after the escalated security chaos entered its 2nd year, where a citizen was found shot dead and his the body was dumped on Al-Taman’aa – Al-Tah Road in the southern sector of Idlib countryside.

The SOHR published hours ago, that it documented the killing of 4 members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, during clashes against local gunmen in the Farwan village in the eastern sector of Idlib countryside, after raids carried out by the Tahrir al-Sham in the village; searching for wanted people there, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published today, Saturday, that a new explosion was heard in al-Dana town in the northern countryside of Idlib on Saturday morning, it turned out to be caused by a car bomb explosion near Beit al-Karam restaurant in the town which injured several people, while an IED exploded in Kafr Karmeen town in the western countryside of Aleppo, near a hospital in the town, which killed 2 people at least, wounded other people, and caused material damage in the area, as part of the continued security chaos in Idlib province and the surrounding countryside controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and other factions, and in the context of continued security chaos: the Syrian Observatory monitored clashes between members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham against gunmen in Farwan town in the eastern countryside of Idlib, after a raid by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in the village searching for wanted people, and confirmed information that the gunmen targeted a car of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and information about casualties in the ranks of both parties.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the security chaos has completed its first year since it started escalation in areas of control of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions in Idlib Province and the countryside around it, through targeting by detonating IEDs and sometimes booby-trapped vehicles, shootings, abductions, and other individual murders; of which not even the civilians have survived, and since the beginning of the escalation of the insecurity and chaos in areas of control of Tahrir al-Sham and the factions; barely one day passes without assassinations and explosions, in conjunction with the inability of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham -the main controller over those areas- with the rest of the factions in controlling the situation and reducing these operations, and that was despite all the security operations all over Idlib and the countryside around it, which were represented by raids and attacks on dens of ISIS cells and other cells active in the area, and just during which they managed to kill tens of these cells and arrested others but they have not been able to control security chaos, amid widespread public dissatisfaction in this regard, keeping the Syrian citizen -as usual- the biggest loser since the beginning of the Syrian revolution and to what the situation has become in Syria.