ISIS insurgence: Three SDF members among six people assassinated in rural Deir Ezzor

Syrian Observatory activists documented several assassinations today in SDF-held areas in rural Deir Ezzor.

Three SDF members were shot dead by unknown assailants in separate incidents in Al-Harmoushiyah village in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, Daman village in the eastern countryside, and Al-Izbah village, north of Deir Ezzor city.

Meanwhile, a civilian mediate reconciliation deals with Syrian regime was shot dead by unknown assailants in Al-Helwah village, near Al-Busayrah city. In Hawija Theban town, the body of a civilian was found with marks of gunshots on, after being missing a few days earlier.

Another civilian was assassinated by masked gunmen inside his shop in Al-Helwah village in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. Reliable sources informed SOHR that International Coalition forces carried out an airdrop on the civilian’s house a few days earlier in which they killed an ISIS security official who was hiding there.

As more people were killed, it rose to 446 fighters, civilians, oil workers, and officials in service parties, the number of people killed in areas within the four provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah and Al-Hasakah, in addition to the SDF-held area of Manbij in the north-east of Aleppo.

Syrian Observatory documented the assassination of 144 civilians including eight children and five women by armed cells in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, al-Hasakah countryside, al-Raqqah city and countryside, and Manbij area. In addition, 298 SDF fighters, including local leaders, were assassinated in the same areas.

Also four members of International Coalition were killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Human also documented tens of injuries due to these assassinations.