The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

A commander in “Tahrir Al-Sham” was assassinated in front of his house in Salqin city in conjunction with growing security chaos in HTS areas of influence

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information about that unidentified gunmen have assassinated a commander in Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham in front of his house in Salqin city north-west of Idlib.

Sources confirmed to SOHR that the commander was an investigative judge in “Aqrabat” Prison, that belongs to “Tahrir Al-Sham”, and he is descended from Al-Mayadin city in Deir Ezzor countryside.

With the fall of more casualties, it rose to 601, 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 166 civilians including 21 children and 14 women, of who were assassinated through bomb explosions, IED detonations, shooting, abduction, murder and then throwing the bodies in remote areas, and 370 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 64 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.