The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Security chaos in HTS-held areas | Unidentified gunmen assassinate young man in Idlib countryside

Idlib province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR sources say that unidentified gunmen assassinated a young man in the city of Ma’rat Misrin, north of Idlib today. According to civil sources, the young civilian does not belong to any military faction. This comes as part of the ongoing security chaos in areas held by HTS and the factions.

SOHR sources have reported an IED explosion in Al-Fu’ah town, which is under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and inhabited earlier by citizens of Alawite community, in the north-eastern countryside of Idlib. The explosion took place while a car was passing by, which caused material damage only.

In early April, SOHR activists have documented the death of a police officer affected by the injury he had on March 31 due to an IED explosion in his motorcycle in Mar’yan town in the southern countryside of Idlib, as SOHR activists documented on that day the injury of a man and his wife due to the explosion of an IED planted under their motorcycle in Mar’yan town in the southern countryside of Idlib. According to SOHR sources, the man sustained critical injuries and taken to a Turkish hospital. The incident came as a part of the ongoing security chaos in areas under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and opposition factions in Idlib and Aleppo countryside.

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 759. 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

  • 447 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.