Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: an explosion rocked Idlib city which is under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and other factions today evening, Thursday the 17th of January 2019, it turned out that it was caused by the explosion of an IED in a vehicle in the neighborhood of Sheikh Thalaq in Idlib city, which caused material damage, without information about casualties so far, and this incident comes in the frame of the ongoing security chaos in the controlled areas of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and the factions in Idlib and the surrounding countryside, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago, that the security chaos is still striking Idlib province and the surrounding countryside which are under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, the “Jihadis” and rebel factions, where the Syrian Observatory monitored that unidentified gunmen shot a fighter believed to be of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, at the northern outskirts of Khan Shaykhun city in the southern countryside of Idlib, which killed him instantly, also a violent explosion was heard in Salqin city in the north-western countryside of Idlib, it turned out that it was caused by the explosion of an IED in the vehicle of a commander in Al-Sham Corps, which only caused material damage, while an explosion was heard in Idlib city believed to be caused by detonating an IED near the city’s nursery, and with the fall of more human losses, it rose to 424, the number of people who were assassinated and killed at the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama, since the 26th of April 2018, until today the 10th of January 2019, the date in which the rescue government imposed its complete control over Idlib and its surroundings, they are the wife of an Uzbek commander and his son, in addition to 111 civilians including 14 children and 7 women, of who were assassinated through bomb explosions, IED detonations, shooting, abduction, murder and then throwing the bodies in remote areas, and 265 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 46 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.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday, the 16th of January 2019, that a violent explosion was heard in Jisr Al-Shughur area in the western sector of Idlib countryside, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the explosion was caused by throwing a grenade by unidentified gunmen on a vehicle in Jisr Al-Shughur city, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 10th of January 2019, that security chaos continues within the factions’-controlled areas in Idlib province and the surrounding countryside, as the factions are busy fighting each other’s, where the Syrian Observatory documented the death of a man, after he was shot by unidentified gunmen Wednesday night in Jisr al-Shughur city in the western countryside of Idlib, also the Syrian Observatory monitored that the number of casualties of the organization and the cells rose to 106 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, after they were arrested previously within the campaign of arrests which targeted tens of persons on charge of these accusations, and which sometimes witnessed violent clashes between members of these cells and members of Tahrir Al-Sham, as well as the executions that used to be carried out directly, or through mass targeting to positions and headquarters of these cells, and this is the first execution to be carried out within the Russian – Turkish demilitarized area, which was specified within the Russian – Turkish agreement that recently reached.

The security forces in Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions of Syrian and non-Syrian nationality have repeatedly failed to control this security chaos, despite their security operations that caused the arrest of cells belong to the “Islamic State” organization, and other cells responsible for kidnappings, assassination attempts, and assassinations, but these operations have not been able to achieve any complete results, but the cells have remained as it is wandering within the areas in which they have caused an uncontrolled security, where the cells are reducing their activity with each military operation, and get active again as security operation ends.