The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After moving about 400 fighters to the west of Euphrates, ISIS sneaks through the river and attacks the regime and its allies in al-Bokamal city

Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the renewal of violent clashes in al-Bokamal area, between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the “Islamic State” Organization, after an attack by the ISIS on al-Bokamal city which is located in the far east of al-Bokamal city near the Syrian-Iraqi border, where members of the organization have infiltrated via Euphrates River into al-Bokamal city, in which violent clashes are taking place against the regime forces and their allies, in an attempt by ISIS to inflict the largest possible casualties and control the area, the clashes are taking place in the neighborhood along the river, amid preliminary information about casualties in the ranks of both parties.

And the Syrian Observatory published hours ago that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored new developments in the aforementioned area, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources that military reinforcements have arrived to locations of the regime forces from two main destinations, where reinforcements of the pro-regime Iraqi gunmen have arrived to the west of Euphrates in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, coincided with the arrival of hundreds of members of regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities to the same area, in order to strengthen the presence of the regime against the “Islamic State” Organization, of which the sources of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have confirmed that it is preparing to carry out a massive military operation against the regime forces and their allies in the west of Euphrates.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources that about 400 fighter of the “Islamic State” organization of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, have crossed from the enclave east Euphrates -which is surrounded by the Syria Democratic Forces who are supported by the International Coalition- to the west of Euphrates River in the form of groups, where they are crossing from al-Shafa area, after intense shelling by the “Islamic State” Organization on areas controlled by the regime and its loyal gunmen west of Euphrates River.

These transformations come in conjunction with the continuation of clashes in al-Bokamal area and its desert, between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the “Islamic State” organization, amid successive attacks by the Organization in an attempt to re-control areas it lost earlier, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the  the “Islamic State” organization continues its military operations west of Euphrates, targeting the regime forces and their allies, on the strategic road of Tehran – Beirut, amid a media blackout about these attacks which were started after the recovery of the “Islamic State” organization successively starting from the capital Damascus on the 13th of March 2018 until Deir Ezzor, until today the 1st of April 2018, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continued attacks by the Organization against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, where the organization was able through its intensive targeting of regime forces’ locations in the Bokamal Desert in southeastern Deir Ezzor province; to inflict more human losses in the ranks of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, raising to 193 at least, the number of members of the regime and their allies who were killed during 20 days of clashes in al-Bokamal, the countryside of Deir Ezzor and south of the capital Damascus, also it rose to 64 at least, the number of members of the “Islamic State” organization who were killed in the same battles, since the recovery of the Organization in the 13th of March 2018, also tens of others of both parties were killed and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation.