Security chaos in HTS-held areas | Explosion rocks Idlib city, leaving several people injured

SOHR sources say that an explosion was heard in Idlib city, as a result of a grenade thrown by unknown assailants near al-Rawda Mosque, injuring several people, one of them seriously.

This comes as part of the ongoing security chaos in HTS-held areas in Idlib province.

On June 25, SOHR activists reported that a currency exchanger in Taftanaz town was robbed today by unidentified masked men in a car. Masked men managed to steal his bag, before fleeing. 

On June 21, reliable sources informed SOHR that unknown gunmen kidnapped two merchants, while heading to Sarmad city in northern Idlib. According to SOHR sources, large sums of US dollars were in the two merchants’ possession. The kidnapped merchants’ fate was not yet known.