The regime forces, Hezbollah, and their allies continue their attempts to achieve a new advancement in Tlul al-Safa area of the rugged nature to clamp down on ISIS and end its existence

Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the clashes continue with varying frequency of violence, between the “Islamic State” organization against the regime forces supported by their loyal gunmen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, in areas in Rif Dimashq desert located at the administrative border with the al-Suwaidaa countryside, where clash are concentrated in Tlul al-Safa area, the last of what remained for the “Islamic State” organization in the area, where the regime forces and their allies are trying to end the presence of the organization through continuous attacks accompanied by rocket shelling carried out occasionally by warplanes, and the clash have left more casualties between both parties, which rose to 315 at least, the number of ISIS members who have been killed in the bombings, shelling and clashes since the 25th of July 2018, while it rose to at least 168, the number of members of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them who were killed in the same period, including members of the Lebanese Hezbollah among them a Lebanese commander as well as officers of the regime forces with varying ranks the highest of which are Major Generals, and the clashes also resulted in the injury of hundreds others with varying severity, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of about 142 citizens including 38 women and children, who were executed or shot by the “Islamic State” organization, in addition to the killing of 116 people, the majority of whom were of the gunmen villagers who carried the gun to repel the organization’s attack, and a 19-year-old boy was executed by ISIS after being kidnapped along with about 30 others, and a woman died when she was held by ISIS in conditions that still vague so far.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published that al-Suwaidaa province is still witnessing the consequences of the execution of one of its female kidnapped people by the “Islamic State” Organization, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the main negotiating committee in the issue of the kidnapped and abducted people of al-Suwaidaa Province withdrawing from the committee, which is composed of Dr. Samer Abu Ammar, Dr. Saeed al-Akk, Mr. Osama Abu Bakkar, Mr. Adel al-Hadi, where the withdrawal came as reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory against the background of the failure of the Russians and the regime with them, and the absence of channels of communication with the “Islamic State” organization, in addition to the reasons given by the committee in a statement the Syrian Observatory received a copy of which, it reads:

“We worked hard to reach the desired results which we hoped to be crowned with the release of the abductees, but unfortunately we did not get to this result for many reasons, the most important of which is that the terrorist did not send any demands to be presented and discussed, and the constraints that the committee faced are numerous and there is no room to mention them now, so we announce our apologies for continuing our work, and as we apologize for pursuing our tasks as a committee; we put ourselves as individuals in the service of these case, and we are ready to cooperate with any party working to achieve this noble goal”.