Deteriorating security in HTS-controlled areas | Two civilians found dead in Harem countryside

Idlib Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Two civilians, a man in his forties and a woman in her thirties, were found dead today with gunshots on their bodies in farmlands in Barisha town in Harem countryside. No further information has been reported about the crime.

 

This crime comes in the light of the escalating security chaos in areas under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and opposition factions in Idlib.

 

On September 29, SOHR sources reported that an identified man was found dead and dumped on the road between Idlib city and Al-Mastumah town.

 

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 672. 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

 

• 199 civilians, including 23 children and 20 women

 

• 390 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.