The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

An explosion rocks the northern sector of Idlib countryside as a part of the ongoing security chaos which claimed the lives of hundreds of citizens and Syrian and non-Syrian fighters and commanders

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the security chaos continues to strike Idlib’s interior, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the detonation of an IED planted in a vehicle in the Industrial area, in Maarrat Misrin town in the northern countryside of Idlib, and no information was reported so far about the fall of casualties, while the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that it monitored finding the body of a young man on the road of Mrimin village in the eastern countryside of Jisr al-Shughur, but no information about the causes and circumstances of his death yet, raising to rising to 381, the number of persons who were assassinated in Idlib countryside and both Aleppo and Hama countryside since the 26th of April 2018, they are the wife of an Uzbek commander and his son, in addition to 88 civilians including 13 children and 6 women, of who were assassinated through bomb explosions, IED detonations, shooting, abduction, murder and then throwing the bodies in remote areas, and 249 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 42 fighters of Somali, Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian, Turkish and Caucasian nationalities have been assassinated in the same ways, 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, while the Syrian Observatory monitored that the number of casualties of the organization and the cells rose to 102 members of ISIS and its cells who have been killed since the end of April 2018, of Syrian, Iraqi, and other non-Syrian nationalities, including at least 44 where executed by slaughtering them or directly shooting them, while the rest were killed during raids and exchange of gunfire between these cells and members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in the areas of Salqin, Sarmin, Sahel al-Rouj and several other areas in the countryside of Idlib, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that an explosion was heard today evening in Jisr Al-Shughur city in the western countryside of Idlib, it turned out that it was caused by an IED explosion in a vehicle in the city, which caused material damage, without information about injuries, while the Syrian Observatory monitored clashes at the outskirts of Sarmin town in the eastern countryside of Idlib, between members of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham against gunmen whose identity has been not known so far, amid exchange of targeting between the both parties, and there is information about the fall of human losses in the ranks of both conflicting parties, where the unidentified gunmen are believed to be cells of the “Islamic State” organization, and these actions and incidents are coincided with ongoing security chaos witnessed in all controlled areas of the factions and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and their controlled areas in Idlib province in particular.