Rif Dimashq Desert operations witnesses a decline in its pace and the fate of abductees remains shrouded in mystery as the regime stalls in reaching a conclusion about their release
Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of clashes in the Desert of Rif Dimashq adjacent to the administrative border of al-Suwaidaa province, where the observatory monitored the decline in clashes between the regime forces supported by the loyal gunmen against members of the “Islamic State” organization in the vicinity of Tlul al-Safa area, in which members of organization are fortifying, while concerns about the fate of the people abducted from the villages of the countryside of al-Suwaidaa, who have been detained by ISIS since the 25th of July 2018, after ISIS carried its biggest, deadliest, and most violent attack in al-Suwaidaa Province since the start of the Syrian revolution, while the resentment comes as a reaction to the continuation of stalling by the regime in reaching a final and definitive agreement with the organization which is fortified in Tlul al-Safa area, to move it towards Homs desert and hand over the abductees, where the resentment has been prevailing their families because the regime didn’t care to their fate despite the fact that they are being detained for 27th consecutive days.
The Syrian Observatory published yesterday morning, Sunday, that it rose to 105, the number of ISIS members who have been killed in the bombings, shelling and clashes since the 25th of July 2018, while it rose to at least 35, the number of members of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them who were killed in the same period, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented since the attack of ISIS in Al-Suwaidaa countryside on the 25th of July 2018, the death of about 142 citizens including 38 women and children, in addition to the killing of 116 people, the majority of whom were of the gunmen villagers who carried the gun to repel the organization’s attack, and a 19-year-old boy was executed by ISIS after being kidnapped along with about 30 others, and a woman died when she was held by ISIS in conditions that still vague so far.