The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Ongoing security chaos in Idlib | Unknown gunmen assassinate HTS member in Maarrat Misrin

Idlib province: SOHR sources have reported that unknown gunmen opened fire on a security official of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in front of his house in Maarrat Misrin city to the north of Idlib city. The security official sustained serious injuries and he died, after he was taken to the hospital.

 

Local sources have reported that the targeted member had joined Jabhat al-Nusra in 2015, and he participated in security operations against ISIS while it was prevalent and operating in Idlib.

 

Syrian Observatory activists in HTS-held areas have documented the death of 73 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: 36 civilians, including five females and two children, 31 Syrian fighters affiliated to HTS, Islamic and rebel factions, six of 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 801. 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:

 

  • Two fighters of the 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

 

  • 255 civilians, including 26 children and 26 women

 

  • 457 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

 

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

 

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