The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Western Idlib countryside | IED explodes killing one person and injuring another

Idlib province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

As security chaos continues in all areas under the control of HTS and rebels in Idlib province, an IED exploded in a car, this morning, in the village of Bakassarya in western countryside of Idlib, killing one person and injuring another.

On March 12, an explosion rocked the town of Al-Foua, north of Idlib city, caused by an IED exploded in a motorcycle belonging to a displaced youth, injuring one person and causing material damage at the site of the explosion.

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 752. 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
  • 227 civilians, including 24 children and 23 women
  • 440 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.