“Tahrir al-Sham” alerts its forces in Sarmin town east Idlib after reports of killing non-Syrian Jihadis by ISIS cells
Activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored an alert situation of about 200 members of “Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham” in Sarmin town southeast of Idlib, through deploying security checkpoints at entrances and exits of the town and checking the movement of civilians, such as inspecting all vehicles entering and leaving the town, after 2 Jihadis of non-Syrian nationality were reportedly killed by cells of the “Islamic State” Organization in the town.
The Syrian Observatory published on the 30th of September 2019 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the Office of Media Relations of “Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham” issued yesterday, Sunday, a statement warning against dragging areas of control of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions north of Syria into an internal war and security chaos, and demolishing the revolutionary institutions, the office said in the statement that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received a copy of: “Within the war of rumors spread by the criminal regime in the liberated areas, the media circulate suspicious declarations of suspicious sources that there are directives and demands about launching a military campaign against Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham.” Where the statement of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham warned the “wise and mindful from dragging the liberated areas to an internal war and wide security chaos; and the destruction of revolutionary facilities and institutions, and helping the occupier and its associates to get rid of the Syrian revolution and its military gains, also these rumors are in line with calls of the Russians in removing the most important forces active in al-Fatah al-Mubeen operation room from the equation of the battle, and in order to distract efforts of our generous people who are united with their revolutionary sons.”
It is worth mentioning that “Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham” established itself as the main controller of Idlib province and the surrounding countryside in Hama, Aleppo, and Latakia, by fighting many factions to weaken the influence of some and completely end others over the past years, and it took their weapons and money, not to mention the accusations against it of failing to repel the attacks of the “Russians and the regime forces” during the previous military campaigns east of road, Khan Shaykhun, and the northern countryside of Hama, this statement comes in conjunction with growing discontent among the citizens north of Syria from practices of “Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham”, which is also a hidden message to prevent the demonstrations opposing the “Julani and his faction” and “the Rescue Government.”