The unknown fate chases Al-Suwaidaa abductees as a result of the regime’s procrastination with regard to the efforts to release them and more casualties raise to about 420, the number of those who were killed in the battles of the Desert
The fate of the abductees who have been kidnapped from the villages of Al-Suwaidaa countryside, is still worrying the civil society in Al-Suwaidaa province, along with the ongoing procrastination of the regime forces to resolve their issue in order to set them free, despite the military operation which has been still continuing since the date of the organization’s attack on the 25th of July 2018, where it killed and injured hundreds of the citizens of Al-Suwaidaa countryside and the gunmen villagers who took up arms to rebel the attack of the organization, the SOHR also monitored, in conjunction with the escalation of this resentment, that the clashes are still continuing between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the members of the “Islamic State” organization, in places in the vicinity of Tlul Al-Safa area, in Rif Dimashq Desert at the administrative border with Al-Suwaidaa countryside, amid exchange of targeting in the clash areas between the both parties, along with escalating the shelling by the regime forces on ISIS areas of presence, after the regime forces managed in the past few hours to advance and take the control of positions used to be controlled by the organization, which resulted in the fall of more human losses.
Where it rose to 121, 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 40, 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.