The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Idlib | Ex-HTS member dies of his injury in earlier IED attack

Idlib Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syrian Observatory activists have documented the killing of a former member of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, who recently joined ” Turkistan Islamic Party”. The ex-HTS member died of injuries he sustained in earlier IED explosion nearby Sarmin on the road to Binnish, east of Idlib.

 

As more fatalities were documented, the number of people who have been killed in the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia since the 26th of April 2018, the start date of the security chaos to be escalated in these provinces, rose to 636. 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

 

  • 184 civilians, including 23 children and 18 women

 

  • 384 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.