The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Ongoing security chaos in HTS-held areas | Gunmen shoot dead civilian near Maarrat Masaren city

Idlib Province: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a civilian died of his injuries sustained a few days ago when unknown armed men shot him inside his farm in Maarrat Masaren city in the north-west of Idlib city.

 

This incident coincides with the continuous security chaos in areas under the control of HTS in Idlib city and surrounding villages in countryside of Aleppo, Latakia and Hama.

 

Syrian Observatory activists in these areas documented the death of 51 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 city and surrounding villages or in Aleppo, Hama and Latakia.

 

According to the SOHR statistics, the fatalities were categorized as follows: 23 civilians, including three females, 24 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 779. 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

 

  • 242 civilians, including 24 children and 24 women

 

  • 451 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.