The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Western Aleppo countryside | Unidentified gunmen assassinate two HTS members

Aleppo Governorate – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the killing of two members of the HTS in the western Aleppo countryside, after being targeted by unidentified gunmen on the road between the towns of Kafr Karmin and Kafr Nasih, west of Aleppo, which led to their immediate death. This comes in light of the ongoing security chaos in the areas controlled by the HTS and factions.

Yesterday, SOHR activists reported that the residents have found a man dead and dumped in orchards in Al-Baleghah area in the western countryside of Idlib.

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 754. 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

  • 228 civilians, including 24 children and 23 women

  • 442 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.