Days after attacking Khalkhala Military Airbase…clashes erupt between gunmen villagers against other unidentified gunmen on Damascus – Al-Suwaidaa Highway near the airbase

Al-Suwaidaa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored clashes between gunmen loyal to the regime forces against an armed group, near Al-Sorah area, on the highway between Damascus and Aleppo, where clashes took place after an attempt by the group to close the road which passes through the area of Khalkhala Military Airbase, which witnessed an attack by the “Islamic State” organization days ago, which resulted in the fall of human losses, and the clashes between the gunmen loyal to the regime forces against the armed group, resulted in the injury of several members.

And the Syrian Observatory monitored on the 1^st of August 2018, that the northwestern countryside of al-Suwaidaa is witnessing a cautious calm since about 36 hours, following the second sudden attack by the “Islamic State” organization in the countryside of province since the 25th of July 2018, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a sudden attack on al-Khalkhala Airbase by a group of the organization after midnight of Tuesday – Wednesday, the 1^st of August 2018, which targeted at the inside of the Airbase by several rocket shells which caused explosions that caused destruction and damage to military equipment inside the al-Khalkhala Airbase, and resulted in the death of 7 members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, and with this second attack inside al-Suwaidaa Province, it rose to 265, the number of people who were killed as a result of the attacks by the “Islamic State” organization on Al-Suwaidaa city and its eastern and north-eastern countryside since the 25th of July 2018 until today the 2nd of August 2018, they are 142 civilians including 38 women and children, and 116 gunmen most of them are of the people of the countryside of Al-Suwaidaa province, who took up arms to rebel the violent and surprising attack of the organization, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored that the number of casualties in the ranks of the “Islamic State” organization who were killed in this violent attack on Al-Suwaidaa countryside and Al-Suwaidaa city, and 7 members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them were killed in the attack on Khalkhala Airbase.