Fears over the lives of Al-Suwaidaa abductees continue in conjunction with the continuation of the regime forces to tighten their grip on the organization in Tlul Al-Safa
Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the violent clashes are still continuing between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the “Islamic State” organization, in places in Tlul al-Safa area in Rif Dimashq Desert at the administrative border with al-Suwaidaa countryside, which is also located at a distance of about 50 km from the International Coalition’s area of presence, and the SOHR monitored that the clashes were accompanied by exchange of targeting on the clash areas, amid shelling by the regime forces on ISIS controlled areas, while the regime forces managed to achieve further advancement in the area, and take the control of more posts and positions, within the process of clamping down on the members of the organization who are located in this area, weeks after their withdrawal from the entire province of Al-Suwaidaa.
This ongoing fighting is coincided with increasing the fears over the lives of the citizens who have been kidnapped from Al-Suwaidaa countryside, where the negotiations have not succeeded until now, to release the abductees or anyone of them, amid ambiguity surrounding the fate of the abducted people from the countryside of al-Suwaidaa Province, increasing the fears over their lives, which pushed the residents to carry out more sit-ins and calls in order to set their relatives free, while the regime forces are still continuing their stall, which the locals described it as indifference to their lives, and that the regime forces take the abductees as a motivation to recruit more people of the province in their wars against the organization.
While this advancement comes in the wake of the death of 33 members at least of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities and of the forces of the Lebanese Hezbollah, including the commander of the front of south-eastern Syrian Desert in Hezbollah with 3 other members of it, and the injury of 105 members at least with varying severity, in addition to the death of 65 members at least of the “Islamic State” organization who were killed in the period stretched between the 25th of August 2018, the date of completing the 2nd month and until the 3rd of September 2018.