The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Family dispute | One person Killed and others wounded in in HTS-held areas in Idlib countryside

Idlib province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR activists say that a young civilian was killed and others injured in a family fight, in which machine guns were used in the town of Qominas in Idlib countryside. According to sources, the dispute erupted due to an old revenge for a murder in Lebanon three years ago. 

Yesterday, reliable sources informed SOHR that unidentified gunmen opened fire on a jihadist of Turkish nationality, after he left a mosque in the northern neighbourhood in Jisr al-Shughour, seriously injuring him and was taken to medical centres.

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 739. 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
  • 225 civilians, including 24 children and 22 women
  • 432 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
  • 80 fighters of Somali, Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian, Turkish and Caucasian nationalities.

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