The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The “Islamic State” organization restores more than 40% of Al-Bokamal city in its first respond on seizing the city

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Al-Bokamal city is witnessing violent fighting between the members of the “Islamic State” organization of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the armed militiamen loyal to them of Lebanese, Iraqi and Asian nationalities, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the fighting concentrated in the middle of Al-Bokamal city, in which the organization managed to regain the control of more than 40% of Al-Bokamal city which was the last city to be controlled by the organization in Syria, and it was also the last stronghold of it in the Syrian territory, in which the organization carried out violent counter attacks started yesterday the 9th of November 2017, and still continuing until now.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the organization managed to take the control of the neighborhoods in the northern, north-eastern and the north-western sections of the city, thus, the Popular Mobilization Forces, the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Iranian Guards as well as the gunmen loyal to the regime forces retreated to the southern, the south-eastern and the south-western sections of the city, while the violent clashes are accompanied by violent and intensive shelling by the gunmen loyal to the regime forces, in conjunction with explosions and shelling by the organization, targeted the positions of the gunmen loyal to the regime forces in the city, and confirmed information about casualties and wounded in the ranks of the both parties in these violent clashes.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published during the past 24 hours that explosions continue to be heard in the far eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor near the Syrian-Iraqi border, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the clashes are taking place in the vicinity of al-Bokamal city at the west bank of the Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, between the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, the revolutionary Iranian Guards and the Lebanese Hezbollah; against members of the “Islamic State” organization, after attacks by the organization in the vicinity of the city, after the control of the gunmen loyal to the regime forces of non-Syrian nationalities on the city, which used to be the last city controlled by the “Islamic State organization in Syria, which also used to be considered the largest remaining stronghold of the organization in the province, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published today that the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian, Arab and Asian nationalities and the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces managed to advance in Al-Bokamal city on the border with Iraq, and managed to impose their full control over the city, which was the largest stronghold of ISIS in Syria, and this control came after the remaining members of the organization withdrew from the city, to its controlled areas remaining in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, after a corridor was opened for them by the gunmen loyal to the regime forces, while reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the regime forces started to sweep the city of mines and explosive devices which were planted by the organization earlier in the city, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the successive collapse of the organization, which was escalated dramatically in Deir Ezzor Province with the end of the first third of September 2017, with the start of “Jazeera Storm” Operation led by the Syria Democratic Forces in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor and east of the Euphrates which is connected to the southern countryside of Al-Hasakah, and by breaking the siege completely and effectively by the regime forces of its controlled areas in Deir Ezzor city, the regime forces and the Syria Democratic Forces escalated their operations against the “Islamic State” organization.