SNHR recorded 6 civilian fatalities in Idlib governorate in October 2025, 10 in November and five in December, 12 in January 2026, 6 in February, 7 in March, 8 in April and 13 in May 2026.566 Between October 2025 and 31 May 2026, most recorded civilian fatalities in the governorate were attributed to actors that SNHR could not identify, except for three civilians killed by remnants of the Assad regime in November 2025 and February 2026.567 An analysis of the period since the fall of Bashar Al-Assad shows a high peak in December 2024 with 85 civilian fatalities,568 followed by around 20 per month between January and April 2025 and between 4 and 13 in the remaining months of 2025.569
Figure 9: Evolution of civilian fatalities in Idlib per month, based on SNHR data570
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SNHR, data covering from 1 October 2025 to 31 May 2026 provided by courtesy of SNHR in an email, 1 June 2026
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SNHR, data covering from 1 October 2025 to 31 May 2026 provided by courtesy of SNHR in an email, 1 June 2026; SNHR, The Killing of 268 Civilians in the First Quarter of 2026 in Syria, including 43 Children, 27 Women, and 1 person due to torture was Documented, 1 April 2026, url, pp. 4-5; SNHR, The Death of 73 Civilians Including 12 Children and Six Women, and Two Deaths due to Torture Recorded in November 2025, 1 December 2025, url, p. 3
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SNHR, 1,264 Civilian Deaths, Including 242 Children and 118 Women, as well as 86 Deaths due to Torture, Documented in Syria in 2024, 2 January 2025, url, p. 9
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Major human rights, security, and socio-economic developments [Q33-2025], 1 October 2025, url, p. 24; EUAA, Syria – Country Focus, July 2025, url, pp. 98-99, 115
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SNHR, data covering from 1 October 2025 to 31 May 2026 provided by courtesy of SNHR in an email, 1 June 2026; EUAA, Syria – Major human rights, security, and socio-economic developments [Q33-2025], 1 October 2025, url, p. 24; EUAA, Syria – Country Focus, July 2025, url, pp. 98-99, 115