In conjunction with undeclared negotiations between the regime and the organization about the abductees…the pace of the military operation decreases amid calm interrupted by aerial and ground shelling in Al-Suwaidaa Desert
Al-Suwaidaa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the pace of the military operations in Al-Suwaidaa desert decreased, where intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the decreased pace of clashes between the “Islamic State” organization against the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, came as a result of sweeping processes by the latter in the areas into which they advanced, in both eastern and north-eastern deserts of Al-Suwaidaa, where the pace of the combat operations has decreased until it reached a state of calm prevailing the area and the battle fronts, with the exception of aerial and ground strikes that target every now and then, the controlled areas of the organization in the depth of Al-Suwaidaa desert.
Reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that this calm is coincided with undeclared negotiations between representatives of the regime and Al-Suwaidaa and between the organization, to reach a consensus about the issue of the abductees of Al-Suwaidaa countryside, who have been detained since the 25th of July 2018, where the regime forces are seeking to set the abductees free, in return for releasing members of the organization and other conditions that the organization is trying to obtain with regard to detainees who are related to the organization in the regime’s prisoners and detention centers, where these negotiations are coincided with increasing 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, where the 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.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published today, Wednesday the 8th of August 2018, that the clashes are continuing at escalated pace of violent between the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them and gunmen villagers on one hand, against the members of the “Islamic State” organization on the other, in areas in both eastern and north-eastern countryside of Al-Suwaidaa, accompanied by ongoing rocket shelling by the regime forces in ongoing attempts by them to achieve further advancements and take the control of more positions and points controlled by the organization, and the Syrian Observatory published today morning, that 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 supported by aerial and rocket cover, to end the presence of the “Islamic State” organization in al-Suwaidaa desert.