After ambushes and violent attacks… ISIS keeps the regime forces away of Al-Mayadin city

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the “Islamic State” organization and through its counterattacks was able to keep the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities away of the western suburbs of Al-Mayadin city, after they were ambushed by the organization yesterday, in conjunction with violent attacks by the organization, which enable it to keep the regime forces despite the aerial support by the Russian warplanes in addition to the violent shelling, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored more casualties in the ranks of the regime forces in ambushes and attacks, where it rose to 38 at least, the number of casualties of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities who were killed since yesterday afternoon until now.

And in this context the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that Al-Mayadin city which used to be the “Capital of al-Khair State” for  the “Islamic State” organization has not witnessed a situation of quietness for about 48 continuous hours, these long hours have only led to more killing, destruction and devastation in the city which is almost free of its inhabitants, who have fled to the deserts of the province which do not keep them from the hot nor cold weather, and these hours have also included violent clashes and intensive raids, artillery and rocket shelling by the regime forces and Russian forces, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented violent clashes between the regime forces supported by the gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities with the participation of Russian forces; against members of the “Islamic State” organization in areas in the western part of Al-Mayadin city, the organization aimed by which to keep the regime forces away and to get them out of the areas they controlled.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored the “Islamic State” organization being able to inflict a large number of casualties in the ranks of the regime forces, where the organization was capable of breaking the regime forces in the first battle within Al-Mayadin city, of which the regime forces have lost years ago. The Syrian Observatory documented the killing of at least 29 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities,  and they managed to pull the bodies of more than 12 of them, and threw them in the squares and streets of Al-Mayadin city, in an attempt to prove its powerfulness to the local, regional and international public opinion, and that it is capable of attacking, making a difference and revers the scales of battle, while SOHR received information that the organization was able to capture some members of the regime forces and injured members during its counterattack in the past 24 hours on areas controlled by the regime forces west of the city, where the regime forces took control of the Sheep Market, Silos, the Automated Furnace, the Rahba Castle and the Airstrip, and the violent clashes have killed members of the organization as well, where the Syrian Observatory documented the death of at least 11 ISIS members, also tens of other members of both parties were injured.

It worth mentioning that the regime forces, supported by Russian forces and their allied militiamen, with a cover of heavy raids and artillery and missile shelling, managed on Friday the 6th of October 2017, to reach the first position in the western part of al-Mayadin city, which was taken by ISIS as the capital of “al-Khair State”, most prominent of which is Rahba Citadel and the areas of silos and sheep markets, and the regime forces have thus entered the city, which witnessed during the past days, hundreds of artillery and missile shelling and raids by the regime forces, the Russians, their warplanes and helicopters, and the regime forces managed to achieve this control through advancing from the east of Deir Ezzor city at the western banks of the Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

Also the SOHR observed that if the regime forces managed to achieve further advancement and control the city of al-Mayadin, they would surround the organization of ISIS on the western banks of the Euphrates River in the villages and towns extending from the east of Deir Ezzor city to al-Mayadin city, and the organization will only have to cross the river towards its eastern banks, where the clashes are taking place between the forces of “al-Jazeera Storm” and ISIS members, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published this morning, that warplanes believed to be Russian carried out a new massacre on the western banks of the Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside, during the last night, in which 14 citizens at least including 7 children and citizen women at least were killed, as a result of raids targeted Mahkan area and its water crossing between Mahkan area in the east of Al-Mayadin at the western bank of the Euphrates River, and Ziban and Al-Tayyanah areas in the east of the Euphrates River, during an attempt by families to leave to Deir Ezzor desert, for fear of the massacres that exhausted them, and the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of serious injuries, while a man and his son were killed and others were injured, as a result of bombing by warplanes yesterday on areas in Hajin in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, thus, the death toll increases to 223 persons at least including 49 children and 58 citizen woman, of who have been killed in the bombing, since the dawn of Friday the 29th of September 2017 until the 6th of October 2017, as a result of the bombing on Deir Ezzor province, the intensive raids also left tens of injuries, some of them are still in serious cases, which may raise the death toll.