Idlib | Two HTS members killed in attack on their checkpoint on the outskirts of the city

SOHR activists have reported an armed attack by unknown assailants, in the early hours of Friday morning, on a checkpoint belonging to the HTS at the entrance to the city of Idlib from the town of Al-Mastuma, south of Idlib. The attack killed two members of the checkpoint, while the attackers managed to escape.

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 724. 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

• 215 civilians, including 23 children and 21 women

• 428 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.