Security chaos | Two HTS members killed in attack on checkpoint in western Aleppo

Syrian Observatory activists say that unknown assailants attacked a checkpoint of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham at the western entrance of Atareb city in the western countryside of Aleppo. The attack took place in the early hours of Saturday morning and it was followed by clashes between HTS and the attackers, which left two HTS members dead and others injured.

 

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 655. 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

 

• 186 civilians, including 23 children and 18 women

 

• 396 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

 

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

 

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