2 days after the meeting with the Coalition and the failure of the 2-month Battle…the Coalition and SDF launch a new round of military operations against ISIS last enclave in the east of the Euphrates
Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from a number of reliable sources, which confirmed that the International Coalition and the Syria Democratic forces have completed the military preparations for starting the grand military operation which sources confirmed that it will be launched in the incoming hours, against ISIS last enclave at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, where the organization managed to restore all the areas it has lost since the start of the operation on the 10th of September 2018, and the operation of recovering the areas was completed on the 28th of October 2018, after a series of intensive attacks by the “Islamic State” organization, during which it exploited the bad weather and sand storms to recover what it had lost, the Syrian Observatory monitored the arrival of thousands of fighters of the SDF, the Special Tasks Forces and the Self-Defense Forces, in the past days, after the guarantees provided by the International Coalition’s delegation to the SDF about guarantees by their countries that Turkey will not target the border strip between the 2 rivers.
The Syrian Observatory monitored the visit a delegation of the French and American Coalition on Thursday, the 8th of November 2018, in Ein Issa area in the northwest sector of al-Raqqah countryside, and in the details Obtained by the Syrian Observatory: a French and American delegation visited Ein Issa area to meet with the leadership of the Syria Democratic Forces, and to discuss the fate of the east of Euphrates under the Turkish threats and the Turkish hinting about a military operation against the east of Euphrates, and the SOHR published on the 9th of November 2018, that it monitored that a new batch is graduating of the Self-Defense Forces, this batch is of the forces who were forcibly recruited and follow the Syria Democratic Forces, where the sources confirmed that the batch includes about 5000 volunteer and recruited fighters, in conjunction with preparations of the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition Forces, to begin the last military operation against the “Islamic State” Organization, at its last enclave east of Euphrates; and in conjunction with the shelling that targets areas in the border strip between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers northeast of Euphrates area, which caused killed 5 fighters of the self-defense forces and the Syria Democratic Forces.
And the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that the military operations within the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, against the last enclave remaining under the control of the “Islamic State” organization on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, completed their second consecutive month on the 10th of November 2018, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that with the end of the second moth, the situations returned to point zero, as they were before launching the military operation on the 10th of September 2018, the date when it was launched under the command of the Coalition and the Syria Democratic Forces, where the organization has depended since the operation completed its first month and to the end of the second moth, on counter attacks that were carried out by it, through which the organization targeted the advancements which were achieved by the Coalition and the SDF in the first month of heavy aerial and ground shelling by the both parties and by the International Coalitions’ warplanes, and the operations led to the recovery of all the areas that the organization lost during the military operation, thus, its controlled areas expanded again from Hajin town to the Syrian – Iraqi border, including the towns and villages of Hajin, Al-Sha’afah, al-Marashdah, Al-Bokhater, Al-Bobadran, Al-Susah, Al-Shajlah, Al-Baghuz Foqani and Al-Baghuz Tahtani, and the organization depended during the operations of recovering these areas, on blowing fighters themselves up using bobby trapped vehicles and explosive belts, as well as depending on the members of the “Caliphate Cubs” of children who have joined the organization, in addition to women recruited within the ranks of the organization, it also depended greatly on the tunnels which enabled it to move its vehicles without being targeted by the International Coalition, which confused the SDF and the Coalition.
The Syrian Observatory documented the death of at least 123citizens who were killed in ISIS last enclave, including 2 children who were killed in shelling by SDF, and the rest were killed in the Coalition’s strikes most of them are of the Iraqi nationality and of ISIS families, including 5 persons who were killed in the first month of the military operations, in addition to the 2 child girls who were killed in the SDF’s shelling, since the 10th of September 2018, and the International Coalition’s strikes targeted two mosques and a Koranic institute in al-Susah town within the ISIS-enclave in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and the majority of them are of Iraqi nationality including families of ISIS members, and in strikes targeted a house in al-Bobadran village and in raids on Hajin, Al-Sha’afah and other areas of the last enclave of ISIS east of the Euphrates, the organization also executed 5 citizens on charge of dealing with the SDF, and it also executed 10 fighters of the SDF after it captured them, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 608, the number of fighters and commanders of the “Islamic State” Organization, who were killed in the shelling, clashes, detonations and airstrikes within ISIS last enclave, including 341 members who were killed in the second month of military operations, while the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 347, the members of the SDF who were killed in clash against ISIS, including at last 208 members who were killed in the second month of military operations, since the start of the military operations on the 10th of September 2018, the SOHR also monitored the fall of hundreds of wounded among citizens and fighter of the both conflicting parties, in addition to causing more destruction to the infrastructure and the citizens’ property.