The International Coalition’s warplanes escalate their targeting to ISIS last enclave east of the Euphrates in conjunction with exchange of advancement attempts and underway detonations between the attackers and defenders
Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored ongoing clashes between the members of the “Islamic State” organization of different nationalities against the Syria Democratic Forces supported by the International Coalition, in areas in the outskirts of Al-Susah town and in its vicinity as well as other areas in the vicinity of Al-Baghuz area, in the last enclave left under the control of the organization, at the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, and the ongoing violent clashes are accompanied by detonating a booby trapped vehicle, on the contact lines between the both parts in the outskirts of Al-Susah, amid confirmed information about the fall of more human losses in the ranks of the both parties, in an attempt by each party to achieve advancement at the expense of the other, amid intensive bombardment by the International Coalition, which targeted the controlled areas of the organization in its last enclave in the east of the Euphrates, and there is information about the fall of casualties as a result of these strikes.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of at least 241 members of the organization who were killed in the ongoing clashes and the Coalition’s strikes, also 126 members at least have been killed of the Syria Democratic Forces since the start of military operations on the 10th of September 2018, one of whom has served as a field commander in Deir Ezzor Military Council of the Syria Democratic Forces, while the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of information about other casualties as well as the presence of injured cases in serious conditions, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published 3 days ago, that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored an International Coalition column of 6 Hummer vehicles and 4 trucks loaded with missiles and logistic materials; heading towards areas adjacent to the enclave controlled by the “Islamic State” organization, while the clashes continue between the Syria Democratic Forces and members of the Organization in areas of al-Shajla and al-Susah in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, as part of the continuous attempts by SDF to advance in the area, while the organization seeks to inflict as many casualties as possible and prevent the International Coalition and SDF from achieve more advancement, where they aims to end the presence of the Organization east of Euphrates through controlling its last enclave.
While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored in the past 72 hours, in pictures and videos, that the International Coalition have brought military groups of the US Marin Corps, to the vicinity of Hajin, where they were brought by a military plane that landed near Hajin area, and there were soldiers of the International Coalition in addition to military equipment aboard it, in conjunction with the ongoing battles in the area and the counterattacks of the organization through which it aims to inflict the largest possible number of casualties in the ranks of its opponents, amid information about the fall of more human losses as a result of the clashes in the areas of Al-Susah and Al-Baghuz, also the Syria Democratic forces managed through the ongoing clashes to arrest 6 members at least of the organization including a woman and members of Syrian, Asian and Algerian nationalities.