Security chaos in HTS-held areas | Displaced man found dead in his tent in northern Idlib
Idlib Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: As the security situation is considerably deteriorating in areas under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and opposition factions in Idlib province and surrounding countryside, as it is the case across the entire Syria, SOHR activists have reported that the body of a civilian was found with gunshot wounds in his tent in Al-Manhal camp in the northern countryside of Idlib, near the Syria border with Iskenderun Region.
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 733. 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
- 221 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.