The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Security vacuum in rebels-held areas | Man found dead in western Idlib

Security chaos escalates in areas under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and opposition factions in Idlib province and surrounding countryside. SOHR activists have reported that a man was found dead with hands shackled, near the outskirts of Al-Wadi Al-Kabeer area between Harem and Sarmada in north-western Idlib.

 

As more fatalities were documented, the number of people who have been killed in the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama since the 26th of April 2018, the start date of the date of starting the security chaos to be escalated in these provinces, rose to 631. They were assassinated by bomb attacks, IED detonations, gunfire, abductions and then killing and throwing the bodies in remote areas. The fatalities were distributed as follows:

 

A fighter in Turkistan Islamic Party

 

The wife of an Uzbek commander and another child was with her

 

The attorney-general of the Ministry of Justice of the Salvation Government

 

183 civilians, including 23 children and 18 women

 

380 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

 

68 fighters of Somali, Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian, Turkish and Caucasian nationalities.

 

Meanwhile, the assassination attempts have injured tens of people with varying severity.