The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Active cells of ISIS continue to target SDF east of Euphrates causing more casualties

Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored unknown gunmen targeting a member of the Syria Democratic Forces by shooting him at al-Shheel area in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, in a continuation of the revenge operations carried out by active cells of the “Islamic State” organization east of Euphrates within areas of control of the Syria Democratic Forces, where the Syrian Observatory published in the past 24 hours that a new attack carried out by unidentified gunmen believed to be cells of the “Islamic State” organization, targeting a headquarters of the Syria Democratic Forces in the area of the carpet factory within Al-Busayrah town at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where exchange of targeting with using machineguns had taken place before the attackers escaped, without information about casualties so far, and this is the second attack of kind in 4 days, where the SOHR published on Friday the 23rd of November 2018, that it monitored at midnight on Thursday an attack by unknown gunmen, believed to be members of cells belong to the “Islamic State” organization, where they targeted headquarters of the Syria Democratic Forces the carpet factory in al-Busayrah town, which is located in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where violent clashes took place between both parties and the attackers fled after planting IEDs on both sides of the road before they flee, where an IED exploded today with a man and his son displaced from al-Bokamal city, which killed them immediately, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published 2 days ago that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored unidentified gunmen targeting a checkpoint of the Syria Democratic Forces in the area of the Eastern Jerthi, which resulted in the death of a member and the injury of another one, while the SDF raided 3 houses in Al-Shuhayl town and confiscated unlicensed internet devices of the residents of these houses, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday, that it monitored an attack by gunmen believed to be members of the “Islamic State” Organization, on a checkpoint of the Syria Democratic Forces in al-Jerthi village in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which killed 4 of them and injured others, this comes in a continuation of the assassinations of this kind which claimed the lives of tens of fighters and wounded tens of others, by gunfire, abduction, killing, execution, bombing of booby-traps and IEDs, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 18th of November 2018 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored renewed assassinations in the area of the Euphrates’s east, most of which is controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces, where the Syrian Observatory monitored that unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a checkpoint of the SDF at the highway in Al-Shuhayl town, at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and intersected sources confirmed that a fighter of the SDF was killed and another one was injured, and the Syrian Observatory monitored on Thursday, an explosion at the outskirts of Al-Busayrah city in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and in the details documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; a booby trapped motorcycle was detonated from a distance while vehicles of the Syria Democratic Forces were passing as they were heading to Al-Omar Oilfield, which resulted in the fall of wounded, as a part of the ongoing targeting and assassination attempts carried out by unidentified perpetrators and by the cells of the “Islamic State” organization within the controlled areas of the SDF in Deir Ezzor countryside, where the Syrian Observatory published today morning, that it documented the death of a person after being shot by unknown gunmen yesterday night, Wednesday, in al-Tayyana village which is under the control of Syria Democratic Forces in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where SDF areas in Deir Ezzor have been increasingly witnessing targeting and assassinations of civilians, SDF fighters, and their loyalists.

And the Syrian Observatory published on Monday, the 12th of November 2018 that a body of SDF fighter Was found at the outskirts of al-Rez village, where he was killed by a sharp tool, sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the fighter who was assassinated was a former member of the “Islamic State” organization and joined Syria Democratic Forces later, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 6th of November 2018 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that tens of members of the internal security Kurdish forces “Asayish” brought hundreds of its members from al-Hasaka province, and transported them to the eastern and northern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and the sources confirmed that this transfer of forces came after the expansion and increase of security chaos within the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas in Deir Ezzor Province, where the Asayish tries to control the internal security in the area and arrest the sleeper cells involved in the assassinations of tens of civilians and fighters in several ways like kidnapping, killing, slaughtering, firing, IEDs detonation, and booby-trapped vehicle, the latest of which was what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Monday, the 5th of November 2018, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a new assassination against the Syria Democratic Forces in their controlled areas in Deir Ezzor province, where the Syrian Observatory learned that unidentified gunmen believed to be members of the “Islamic State” organization, opened fire on a member of the SDF in Abriha village in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, which caused his immediate death, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 2nd of November 2018 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored an assassination which targeted a commander in the military police of the Syria Democratic Forces, through shooting him by unidentified gunmen on 2 motorcycles while he was passing through Al-Tayyanah town in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, as a part of renewed revenge operations by the “Islamic State” organization and its cells in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor east of the Euphrates River, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 30th of October 2018, that it monitored a new assassination that targeted members of the Syria Democratic Forces, in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, and in the details monitored by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; unidentified gunmen believed to be cells of the “Islamic State” organization, have assassinated a local commander from Al-Shuhayl town, by shooting him in Theban area, which caused his death, while the Syrian Observatory monitored a raid by the SDF on a house in Hariza village that is related to Al-Busayrah town, which resulted in arresting 10 members of cells of the organization one of them is Syrian, and the rest are of different non-Syrian nationalities.