The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Security chaos in HTS-held areas | Residents find unidentified body in Idlib countryside

Idlib province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR activists say that residents have found the body of an unidentified young man, who was killed in unknown circumstances, on the Kafraya-Ma’rat Misrin road in Idlib countryside. According to medical sources, the time of death was about 10 days ago. His body was decomposed.

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 728. 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
  • 219 civilians, including 24 children and 21 women
  • 427 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
  • 79 fighters of Somali, Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian, Turkish and Caucasian nationalities.

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