105 fighters and prisoners were killed and executed during the last 72 hours of the most violent clashes east of Euphrates since the beginning of 2018, with fears for the lives of tens of women abducted by ISIS
Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Concerns over the lives of about 130 families abducted by the “Islamic State” organization in its surprise attack yesterday on the al-Bahra camp at the outskirts of the organization-controlled enclave, and in the details documented by the Syrian Observatory: the organization abducted about 130 families, the majority of whom were women including women members who had defected from the Organization, as well as “Immigrant” women who are wives of ISIS members killed earlier and the majority of whom were of non-Syrian nationalities, where the Organization took them to its controlled areas in its last enclave east of Euphrates River, where the “Islamic State” Organization was able to control al-Bahra camp on Friday for hours through its cells from within the camp, but the Syria Democratic Forces restored control of it afterwards, and violent clashes took place between both parties, and in the same context, the violent clashes continued between ISIS members of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the Syria Democratic Forces supported by the International Coalition, in the areas of the Baghuz, al-Susah, Hajin, and other areas in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where the last enclave of the Organization is located in the area, accompanied by aerial bombardments by Coalition warplanes on sites of the Organization and the clash areas.
These violent battles, which have been taking place since the dawn of the 10th of October 2018 until now, have left more casualties in the ranks of both parties, where it rose to 37 at least, the number of members and fighters of the Syria Democratic Forces, while at least 58 of ISIS members have been killed, and more than 150 were injured of both sides, in addition to 10 people the Organization executed within the enclave it controls.
thus, it rose to at least 325, the number of ISIS members who were killed in the ongoing clashes and the Coalition’s strikes, while 176 members at least have been killed of the Syria Democratic Forces since the start of military operations on the 10th of September 2018, one of whom has served as a field commander in Deir Ezzor Military Council of the Syria Democratic Forces, while the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of information about other casualties as well as the presence of injured cases in serious conditions.
Intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that forces of Deir Ezzor Military Council of the Syria Democratic Forces; are positioning in the first lines in the confrontation of the “Islamic State” Organization, after the withdrawal of YPG and replacing them by al-Sh’aytat and then the withdrawal of the latter, and that’s when Deir Ezzor Military Council positioned on the contact lines with the ISIS-controlled enclave, which planted the enclave with mines intensely, including the laser mines that strained the attacking and advancing forces and caused significant casualties, where the sources confirmed that the mines and their sensitivity and intensity in the last enclave of the Organization have injuring tens of fighters of varying severity and caused amputations for some of them, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources that tens of members of the “Islamic State” Organization have infiltrated from the last enclave of ISIS east of Euphrates to the western bank of the river, where the areas there are controlled by the regime forces, the Iranian forces, and their loyal gunmen, and that they are monitored and tolerated by the International Coalition Forces who are attacking the last enclave of the Organization, while the Syrian Observatory monitored the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition transferring tens of people and families to al-Bahra camp, which consists of tens of tents in the countryside of the Hajin town, which was established by SDF and the Coalition to accommodate the displaced families and families of members of the “Islamic State” Organization, where it is expected for the displaced people to be accommodated in the camp in the next few days, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from reliable sources who confirmed that more than 100 members of the internal Kurdish security forces “Asayish”; went to Hajin town and around it; to hold the control of points in the area after the advancement of the Syria Democratic Forces there.
The Syrian Observatory published previously that the prisons of the organization in its last enclave at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, still contain hundreds of prisoners distributed in Hajin and Al-Shaafa, where there are 2 prisons in Al-Shaafa containing more than 1350 prisoners including members of the organization mostly of foreign nationalities with various charges such as security charges, and in Hajin town, there are about 800 prisoners accused of various charges, and the Syrian Observatory published previously, that it learned from reliable sources, that the Coalition Forces continue their intelligence search for a major tunnel in Hajin area, where the sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the French Forces in particular have obtained incomplete information about a tunnel for the organization in Hajin area, which is about 8 km long and the cars and vehicles can go through it, where the French Forces are trying to get full information about the tunnel and its location, so that the International Coalition can start the military operation, also obtained information from reliable sources reported that there are more than 65 first-rank commanders of the “Islamic State” organization in Hajin town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, the majority of them are of Iraqi nationality in addition to foreign nationalities.