The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham carry out a massive raid in Sarmin east of Idlib after security chaos and assassination that killed about 190 Syrian and non-Syrian civilians and fighters

Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham carrying g out a massive raid in and around Sarmin town in the eastern countryside of Idlib, looking for “sleeper cells of the Islamic State Organization,” and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: a large military and security force of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham gathered in the vicinity of Sarmin and began closing the roads between the town and its surrounding, and then carried out raids inside the town, and the sources confirmed to the observatory that Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham believes that cells of the Organization are in Sarmin area, and that there are places for preparing IEDs, and that the executions which were carried out previously against its members were in the area near Sarmin, where Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham is searching for them in order to arrest them after the continuous widespread of security chaos in Idlib Province, the western countryside of Aleppo, and the northern countryside of Hama, where saw the last areas witnessed assassinations targeted tens of Syrian and non-Syrian civilians and fighters, where the Syrian Observatory documented that it rose to 189, the number of people who were assassinated in Idlib countryside and both Aleppo and Hama countryside, they are 46 civilians including 8 children and 3 women, of who were assassinated through bomb explosions, IED detonations, shooting, abduction, murder and then throwing the bodies in remote areas, and 120 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, and 23 fighters of Uzbek, Asian, and Caucasian nationalities have been assassinated in the same ways since the 26th of April 2018, also the assassination attempts have injured tens of people with varying severity, while the factions stepped up their raids and operations against sleeper cells they accused of belonging to the “Islamic State” organization.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published 6 days ago that Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham arresting a commander defected of the “Islamic State” organization, he is Jordanian nationality commander and he moved to the ranks of jihadist organizations within Syria about 5 years ago, where in recent weeks information about his disappearance was spread following his announcement of defection, because he accused the Organization of asking people to arbitrate the Sharia of ALLAH and not applying it to itself, and because of the corruption of judges and officials in the Organization, and the fact that they were not judging by the rules of ALLAH as a result of being under the control of the security services of the Organization, and the sources confirmed that the leader was arrested in al-Dana area in the northern countryside of Idlib near the Syrian – Turkish border.

These two explosions come 8 days after a booby-trapped explosion in Idlib city, where the Syrian Observatory monitored on the 13th of June 2018 the fall of casualties as a result of a detonation that targeted Idlib city, where 6 members at least of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, were killed in the detonation which hit the area of al-Konserwah factory, where a gathering of fighters of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham is located, in the west of Idlib city, and a group of the “Islamic Stat” organization in “Idlib State” adopted the detonation, where they targeted the area by a booby trapped vehicle which resulted in significant material damage, and this targeting comes as a revenge for Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham’s attack in Salqin countryside few days ago, during which a large number of ISIS Iraqi members were killed, the Syrian Observatory also published on Sunday morning, the 10th of June 2018, that 2 bodies were found in Ariha city after midnight of yesterday. And in the details monitored by the Syrian Observatory: two bodies believed to be for 2 members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham were dressed the orange dress and were found killed at al-Hadid bridge in Ariha city in the southern countryside of Idlib, where one of the bodies was hung and the words “Islamic State of Idlib… punishment according to act” were written on both bodies, where this killing comes hours after the” Islamic State “organization’s execution of 3 Tahrir al-Sham members, where the Syrian Observatory published last night, Saturday, that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the “Islamic State” organization has executed 3 members, intersected sources said that they are members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, where the organization, under the name “Idlib State”, executed the 3 members by slaughtering and beheading them, after it made them wear “the orange suit”, where this execution came as a response of the raid and bloody fighting which accompanied it in Kafr Hind village, in the countryside of Salqin city, in the north-western countryside of Idlib, which targeted former members of the organization, on charge of being “sleeper cells of the organization”, in addition to the execution of 6 other persons by Tahrir Al-Sham, on charge of “belonging to the organization and forming sleeper cells”.