The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Security chaos in Idlib | Unknown assailants attack military vehicle on M4 leaving two dead and child wounded

Idlib Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syrian Observatory activists have confirmed that unknown gunmen attacked a military vehicle of affiliated to an opposition faction neat Basnqul town in the western countryside of Idlib, on Aleppo-Latakia international highway M4. The attack left two persons dead, while a child who was also in the vehicle sustained injuries.

 

As more fatalities were documented, the number of people who have been killed in the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama since the 26th of April 2018, the start date of the date of starting the security chaos to be escalated in these provinces, rose to 635. 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

 

  • 184 civilians, including 23 children and 18 women

 

  • 383 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.