The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Security chaos in HTS-held areas: unidentified assailants attack military headquarters in Idlib city

SOHR sources say that a member of Tahrir Al-Sham was killed by unknown assailants in an attack this evening on a military headquarters in al-Qussur neighbourhood in Idlib city.

The number of people who have been killed in the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, Hama and Latakia since the 26th of April 2018, since the security chaos escalated in the province, has risen to 627. 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”
  • 179 civilians, including 22 children and 18 women
  • 380 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.
  • 68 fighters of Somali, Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian, Turkish and Caucasian nationalities.

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