The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

ISIS carries out a new attack west of the Euphrates targeting the regime forces and their allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities in the frame of its targeting to the area

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: violent explosions and gunfire were heard in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that they were caused by violent clashes between the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the members of the “Islamic State” organization, in areas in Al-Salihiyah Desert in the west of the Euphrates River, as well as other areas in the vicinity of M’eizileh area, amid the sounds of explosions in the area, caused by shelling accompanying the clashes between the both parties, amid targeting operations in the clashes areas, and there is information about confirmed human losses in the ranks of the both parties.

This new attack by the members of the organization, comes within a series of attacks by the “Islamic Sate” organization, on the area where the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian, Arab and Asian nationalities are located, where the Syrian Observatory monitored on the 2nd of September 2018, the outbreak of clashes between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, against members of the “Islamic State” organization, in areas in al-Bokamal desert in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor west of Euphrates River, and the clashes were accompanied by intense exchange of shelling in the clash areas between both parties, while the Syrian Observatory monitored bombardment by warplanes on areas of presence of attacking ISIS members, and information about casualties in the ranks of both parties, the Syrian Observatory has also published that it documented the death of at least 13 of regime’s loyal gunmen, and the Syrian Observatory documented the death of at least 8 members of the organization, also caused the clashes that took place in the area between al-Mayadin city and al-Dwayr Desert and in al-Tim Oilfield area south of Deir Ezzor airbase; has injured several other of both parties, where the Organization seeks to inflict the largest possible number of casualties in the ranks of the regime forces and its Syrian and non-Syrian allies, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was monitoring on Saturday, the 1st of September 2018, that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the pace of fighting decreased in the front which is stretched from Al-Mayadin city to al-Dwayr Desert, in the west of the Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and in the area of Al-Taim Oilfield which is located in the south of Deir Ezzor city and at a distance of about 12 km away from its military airbase, where the SOHR monitored the fall of casualties as a result of the violent shelling and clashes which took place in the area, between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the members of the “Islamic State” organization, where the SOHR documented the death of 9 members at least of the gunmen loyal to the regime, and information about more human losses in their ranks, as well as other casualties in the ranks of ISIS members, where the clashes were accompanied by bombardment by warplanes on the organization’s areas of presence, amid exchange of targeting in the clash areas between the both parties.