About 30 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were killed in an ambush by Jaysh al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a large number of members and officers of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were killed, and others were injured in an ambush by fighters of Jaysh al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta, and in details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: 28 members at least of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them including officers were killed, while they were attempting to attack in al-Rihan front south of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta, reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the regime forces were trying to advance in the strategic area by this attack, which would have allowed them to control a block of farms which in turn would have enable them to uncover most of al-Rihan area, and the activists of the Syrian Observatory monitored Jaysh al-Islam transferring a large number of bodies they pulled out of the battlefield, and regime’s death toll may still rise due to the presence of injured members in critical situations.

This targeting comes more than 17 months after an ambush by Jaysh al-Islam against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, where 76 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were killed after being targeted by Jaysh al-Islam in the vicinity of Tal al-Sawwan area between areas of Adra and Douma in the Eastern Ghouta, where 45 of them were killed by the machineguns of Jaysh al-Islam fighters, while 14 others were left bleeding for more than 14 hours without trying to save them, while the other 31 were killed in mine fields planted mostly by the regime forces earlier in the vicinity of Tal al-Sawwan area, also the fate of more than 100 members of the regime forces who advanced to the area is still unknown until now, while the tension is prevailing in the eastern area of Alawites mountains in the countryside of Latakia, amid anger and resentment of the people, because the regime of Bashar Assad had left their children trapped for hours without being able to save them, and then left them to their fate in Tal Swan area in the Eastern Ghouta.