The Coalition and the SDF continue the airdrop operations and chasing leaders and members of the organization near the Iraqi border and arrest 35 members of it and others who are accused of belonging to it

The countryside of Al-Hasakah which is located near the Syrian – Iraqi border, witnessed successive security operations, which targeted scattered villages in an area of about 50 km between the southern countryside of Al-Qamishli and the south-eastern countryside of Al-Hasakah, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights about the developments during the latest week; the joint Operations Room between the International Coalition Forces and the Syria Democratic Forces, tended to carry out raids in 5 scattered villages at least between the areas of Tal Hamis and al-Hool, where the intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory, that the raids took place through airdrops by helicopters of the International Coalition, along with a raid by ground security forces, on the 5 villages which are near the Syrian – Iraqi border, where in one of the villages related to Al-Bahra Al-Khatuniyyah, 5 members of the organization were arrested, one of whom is a commander, and they are from the Iraqi province of Saladin, who came previously to Al-Hasakah province in a “displacement deal” and managed then to leave the displacement camps in Al-Hasakah province, while the other raids on the remaining 4 villages related to Tal Hamis area including the villages of Al-Ta’if, Al-Fustat and Al-Qayrouan, resulted in arresting about 30 persons of Syrian and Iraqi nationalities, of members of the organization and other persons who are accused of “belonging to the “Islamic State” organization and work in its favor”, where the security forces took them to detention centers of the SDF and the International Coalition.

The reliable sources added to the Syrian Observatory, that this raid was carried out after long detections about the arrested persons, who were located in displaced people camps and took refugee through a “displacement deal”, where they were brought out of these camps by “collaborators” on the host’s bail, then the Kurdish intelligence in the area tended to investigate about them after their departure, and follow their activity, until carrying out the raid in the latest week, and the sources also confirmed that the commander among the 5 arrested persons who are from the Iraqi province of Saladin, was identified by “acoustic fingerprint”, where he was detained in Iraq and then he fled with the others who were with him to the Syrian interior.

The Syrian Observatory published previously about aerial landings by the Coalition in several areas east of the Euphrates, through helicopters in the countryside of Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory published on the 31st of August 2017, that it learned that a new airdrop carried out by warplanes of the International Coalition near Deir Ezzor city, from the northern side, where the helicopters which carried out the airdrop transported several persons, in which reliable sources said to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that they are likely to be members of ISIS, security members and others of who deals with the International Coalition, within repeated operations by the International Coalition during the past days, in which it transported European fighters and others local and of Arab nationalities.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published 2 days before that, that a new airdrop was carried out in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, by the forces of the International Coalition, where SOHR learned that three helicopters which belongs to the International Coalition carried out an airdrop in Al-Sawh area in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, at a distance of about 10 km south-west of Al-Masrab town, where the operation was carried out at the afternoon of Wednesday the 30th of August 2017, and reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the International Coalition transported members of the “Islamic State” organization, sources said to SOHR that it is likely to be that the International Coalition has been transporting its agents and members who deal with it, for days, from areas controlled by the organization, and a lot of them are members of the organization, by its helicopters to its headquarters.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 26th of August that a new airdrop took place in Deir Ezzor countryside, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a helicopter of the International Coalition, carried out an airdrop in Al-Tabany area in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, in the afternoon of Saturday the 26th of August 2017, where a number of reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the airdrop’s force transferred members of ISIS of European nationalities, and the airdrop took place in conjunction with artillery shelling by the Syria Democratic Forces and the forces of “Euphrates Wrath” Operation, on Al-Tabany area, where the process of airdrop and transferring the foreign members took place, on the banks opposite Al-Jazarat area, and sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that it is likely to be that the International Coalition aims to transfer agents of who it planted previously in the ranks of the organization, or it transfers members and leaders of who communicated with it and expressed their desire to get out of the areas which are controlled by the organization and to leave the ranks of the latest.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published that it received details from several reliable sources in the area of Beqres in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor about the airdrop operation that took place in the town at night of the 24th of August, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, about 20 persons believed to be affiliated to the International Coalition forces, accompanied by another person, who speaks Arabic, carried out an airdrop from two military helicopters and landed in a house at the banks of the Euphrates River in the outskirts of Beqres town, a house was used by the “Islamic State” organization as a warehouse for weapons and ammunition. These persons landed through this airdrop into this house and then took an explosive expert from European nationality, in addition to 3 other Arab persons, which are believed to be Arab nationalities, likely Egyptian, and a civil man from Beqres town. During the airdrop, an exchange of fire took place, and the SOHR learned that a Kazakh man, living in a nearby house, opened fire at the airdrop forces, which led them to attack him with bombs, killing him and his family, while sources believed that those who were taken by the coalition forces are not captives, but they work for the international coalition in the area, and the collation withdraw them from the site, while sources asserted that the warplanes targeted the warehouse after the withdrawal of the airdrop forces along with the 4 members of the organization and the civilian.