Within the framework of military operations in the area, shelling and continuous clashes east and northeast of al-Suwaidaa desert
Al-Suwaidaa Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: areas in the east and northeast of al-Suwaidaa desert are still witnessing clashes between members of the “Islamic State” organization against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them and villager gunmen, accompanied by a renewed rocket shelling carried out by the latter on sites of the first, as part of the continuation of military operations by the regime forces in the area, which were launched on the evening of Sunday, the 5th of August 2018, and the regime forces aim through their operations to end the presence of the “Islamic State” organization in al-Suwaidaa desert, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that it monitored that the fears of the families of the Al-Suwaidaa abductees is increasing, of a new reaction by the “Islamic State” organization, in regard with what happened today morning, Tuesday the 7th of August 2018, where gunmen loyal to the regime forces has executed a member of the organization after capturing him alive then they hung him in a square in Al-Suwaidaa city, hanged him and put the banner of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, and these fears for the lives of the abductees, came days after the organization had executed the first citizen within the 30 women, children, and boys who were kidnapped by the organization on the 25th of July 2018, then they were transported to al-Suwaidaa desert, were these fears were accompanied by the citizens’ resentment, against this execution which was carried out by gunmen loyal to the regime and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, where the latter denied that it participated in carrying out this execution, and considered this action that it is not of the morals of the party’s forces”, and the Syrian Observatory monitored hours ago, that the loyalists and gunmen villagers of al-Suwaidaa executing a prisoner of the “Islamic State” organization, hours after capturing him during the clashes in the al-Suwaidaa Desert, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring hundreds of the citizens and members of the gunmen loyal to the regime hanging one of the prisoner over the one of the arches in al-Suwaidaa, and it is not known whether the captive was hanged when he was hung, or if he was executed by gunfire after capturing him alive and after that his body was hung, amid fears for the lives of abductees of the countryside of al-Suwaidaa who are detained by ISIS.
While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 4 members of the Syrian Nationalist Party loyal to the regime forces who were killed in the suicide attack that was carried out by members of the “Islamic State” organization in a point of them in the eastern desert of al-Suwaidaa to the east of Douma village, and in the same context, it rose to more than 16, the number of killed ISIS members -including a suicide bomber- since the beginning the military operations of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them and the gunmen villagers in the eastern and northeastern desert of al-Suwaidaa, which began on Sunday night the 5th of August 2018, and since the launch of the operations more than 6 vehicles of the “Islamic State” organization have been destroyed.