The International Coalition and SDF resume their shelling on ISIS last enclave in the east of the Euphrates after the temporary suspension of preparations for the final battle in the area
Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition resumed their shelling against the last enclave left under the control of the “Islamic State” organization, where the SOHR monitored shelling by the SDF and the Coalition targeting areas in Hajin town, along with the overflight of the International Coalition’s warplanes over the area, amid their heavy targeting to the area of Al-Haql Al-Azraq (the Blue Field), targeting members of the organization who infiltrated to this area, where the bombardment continued for less than an hour, while the Syrian Observatory has not monitored the preparations returning to the normal mode, after the decision of the Syria Democratic Forces and their commanders to suspend the operation temporarily, in an objection to the Turkish shelling on the Syrian North within the area of the Euphrates’ east, which is coincided with the military operation against the organization in its last enclave in the east of the Euphrates River.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago, that reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the Syria Democratic Forces have stopped “Al-Jazeera Storm” Operation against the last enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization at the east banks of Euphrates River, in conjunction with the preliminary shelling by the Turkish forces on the Syria Democratic Forces and their controlled areas and positions in the countryside of Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) and Tal Abyad, which claimed the lives of 4 self-Defense Forces fighters, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the suspension of preparations despite the arrival of thousands of fighters to the battlefronts, where it rose to 1000, the number members of the YPG and SDF Special Forces who came from al-Raqqah, in addition to more than 200 of the self-defense forces and over 2000 fighters of al-Sh’aytat Clans, they reached the battlefronts with the Organization and the special forces positioned in a military site near the last enclave of the Organization at the east bank of Euphrates.
The activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the stop of all movements towards the front, in addition to the stop of the rocket and artillery shelling on the Organization’s sites, and the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the military commanders in the eastern Euphrates were informed by the military command to stop all operations, movements, and mobilization, until the stop of the Turkish shelling definitively on the east of Euphrates areas, which claimed the lives of 4 fighters of the self-defense forces and injured others of varying severity, while the Syrian Observatory published hours ago that as the military preparations for the last battle against the “Islamic State” Organization east of Euphrates continue, the Syrian Observatory learned that the International Coalition warplanes have carried out intensive bombardment since before midnight of yesterday until dawn of today, Wednesday, targeting positions of the “Islamic State” Organization in its remaining enclave on the east banks of Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, then the frequency of bombardment returned to be sporadic, but no information about casualties until the moment. These raids come in the framework of the preliminary strikes to disperse the ranks of the Organization, and the Syrian Observatory also published last night that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the International Coalition’s warplanes carried out strikes today evening on the contact lines of the “Islamic State” organization with the Syria Democratic Forces, at the outskirts of the enclave which is controlled by the organization east of the Euphrates River, without information about casualties so far, along with the ongoing preparations by the International Coalition and the SDF for starting the final military operation against the organization in the east of the Euphrates, with the aim of ending the presence of the organization as a dominating power from the entire area of the Euphrates’ east, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that members of the “Islamic State” organization have carried out an attack targeting posts of the SDF in the desert of Deir Ezzor countryside, near the contact lines with the organization, which pushed the International Coalition’s warplane to bomb the area where they killed more than 9 members of the organization by their airstrikes, after clashes that took place between members of the organization against the Syria Democratic Forces.