Imminent security campaign | HTS puts on high alert in Idlib, as security chaos continues in the area
Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that the city of Idlib and its surroundings have been witnessing since dawn Tuesday, a high security alert by HTS, as dozens of heavy armed vehicles and members were deployed in the area.
According to Syrian Observatory sources, Tahrir al-Sham is expected to launch a large-scale security campaign during the day, targeting cells of ISIS and Syrian regime, in light of the security chaos in Idlib province.
Days ago, SOHR sources reported an armed attack by unknown assailants on a checkpoint belonging to the HTS at the entrance to the city of Idlib from the town of Al-Mastuma, south of Idlib, killing 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.