Armed attack | ISIS cells open fire on HTS checkpoint near Iskenedrun Region, killing two members

Idlib Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syrian Observatory activists have monitored an armed attack by unidentified gunmen, but believed to be ISIS cells, on checkpoint of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham between Qah and Deir Hassan areas in the northern countryside of Idlib, near the Syria border with Iskenderun Region. The attack left two members of the checkpoint dead, while others sustained various injuries.

 

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 732. 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

 

• 220 civilians, including 23 children and 22 women

 

• 431 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.