Unidentified gunmen kidnap a young man in Maarrat Al-Nu’man countryside and assassinate a local commander in a brigade operating in Daraa countryside

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: unidentified gunmen kidnapped a young man after the midnight of Tuesday – Wednesday, from his house in Kafr Rumah town in the western countryside of Maarrat Al-Nu’man, and they took him to unidentified destination, an there is no information was reported yet about the reasons and the circumstances of kidnapping him.

Daraa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: unidentified gunmen assassinated a commander in a rebel brigade operating in the eastern countryside of Daraa, by targeting him by an explosive device killed him immediately on Al-Lajat – Sayda Road, while he was traveling in his car, and as it usual, it was not known who carried out the assassinations which escalated recently in Daraa province, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 22nd of October a report on the assassination by unknown perpetrators in Daraa province, where it said that in the shadow of the security chaos in areas controlled by the opposition’s factions in Daraa Province; the assassinations continue by unidentified people that has been haunting the cities, towns and villages of the province for more than a year, the assassinations target members of the rebel and Islamic factions and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham In addition to civilians and they are carried out by the regime forces by planting IEDs, thermal missiles targeting, unknown gunmen, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented through its activists the distribution of most of the assassinations in the eastern countryside, and they are concentrated on al-Tariq al-Harbi stretching from al-Shiyyah area until the Naseeb town and the road of Om al-Mayathen – al-Naima as well as the road of Saida – al-Msifra, where local sources accused the involvement of factions through security offices in operations of assassination that has been carried out there, while the regime forces are targeting by IEDs the road from the Eastern Karak town to Rakhm, and the road of al-Sor – Eastern al-Gharya, in addition to the Silos area stretching from Gharaz to Om al-Mayathen, due to the presence of checkpoints and sites of the regime forces near the mentioned areas, and moving to the northern countryside: the assassinations are concentrated between Tal al-Mal and Kafr Nasej; and the area connecting between Zamreen, Kafr Nasej, Tal Antar and Tal al-Allaqiyyat, where the regime forces are targeting them using explosive devices and thermal rockets from where they are on the contact lines with the factions, also the same sources accused the security offices located in the western countryside of Daraa of being involved in the assassinations within the area between Samlin and Zamreen as well as the towns of Nimr and Jassim and the road of Nawa – Jassem, while the town of Tafas in the western countryside of Daraa had the largest share of assassinations, where a large number of assassinations was carried out their by IEDs and gunfire, in addition to the roads of Tafas –Da’el, Tafas – al-Muzeireeb and Tal Shehab – al-Muzeireeb, where most of the assassinated corpses were thrown in front of Tafas Hospital and al-Shamri Mill north of al-Muzeireeb town, and these assassinations have taken the lives of tens of people in a whole year, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documenting since October 2016 until the 22nd of October 2017 the death of more than 194 people at least, where 162 of them were leaders and members of the factions and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, and 23 people were accused of “belonging to the Islamic State organization”, in addition to 9 civilians people, all of whom were assassinated by IEDs, thermal missiles and gunfire.