The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Deteriorating security in HTS-held areas | Young man found dead in Idlib city

Idlib province: The body of a university student from Darya city in Rif Dimashq was found dead with gunshot wounds in Idlib city which is under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and opposition factions.

 

On April 9, SOHR activists reported that a young man in his thirties was found dead near Maarrat Misrin roundabout in Idlib city. According to medical sources, the young man died after his head hit a rough object, but no further details have been reported.

 

This incident coincided with the deteriorating security in areas under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and opposition factions in Idlib province and surrounding villages in Aleppo, Latakia and Hama countryside.

 

Syrian Observatory activists in these areas have documented the death of 48 persons since the beginning of 2021 by bombings, shooting or kidnapping and then getting rid of much of the bodies in remote areas in Idlib and the surrounding villages or in Aleppo, Hama and Latakia.

 

According to the SOHR statistics, the fatalities were categorized as follows: 21 civilians, including three females, 23 Syrian fighters affiliated to HTS, Islamic and rebel factions, four from jihadist groups of non-Syrian nationals. Dozens others have been wounded in these attacks.

 

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 776. 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

 

  • 240 civilians, including 24 children and 24 women

 

  • 450 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

 

  • 83 fighters of Somali, Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian, Turkish and Caucasian nationalities.

 

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