After tens of their members were killed, captured and escaped…SDF start a counterattack in ISIS last enclave with support of heavy firepower by their forces and the International Coalition
Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continued violent fighting in conjunction with the bad weather, in ISIS last enclave on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights from a number of reliable sources; the Syria Democratic Forces started counterattacks on the posts which the “Islamic Stet” organization has attacked in the east of the Euphrates, at the outskirts of ISIS controlled areas in the last enclave left for it in the east of the river, and these violent clashes are accompanied by intensive and violent shelling by the International Coalition on the positions of the organization, in an attempt by the Coalition and SDF to advance again and recover the areas they lost, amid information about the fact that they managed to recover a number of them, also the reliable sources confirmed that about 15 Hummer vehicles of the International Coalition headed from its bases in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, towards the fronts and the contact lines with the organization, along with the ongoing violent fighting in the area, which is coincided with exchange of targeting on the clash areas, which witnessed detonating a number of booby trapped vehicles and explosive belts by the organization, while preliminary information has been received about more captives of the SDF who contact was lost with, in the organization’s counterattacks on the area.
And the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that the attack resulted in the death of 10 members of the SDF in addition that the organization has captured 35 members at least of the SDF while tens others ran away from the contact lines as a result of the violent attack, which resulted in the run out of their ammunition, in addition not to be supported by warplanes or artillery as a result the attack by the organization that simultaneously targeted more than one area, and the fact that the International Coalition’s warplanes were supporting SDF in other positions, and the organization has exploited the bad weather in carrying out its most violent counter attack so far.
And with the fall of more human losses, it rose to at least 267, the number of ISIS members who were killed in the ongoing clashes and the Coalition’s strikes, while 149 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 SOHR published today the 10th of October 2018, that the military operations of the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition have completed its first month on Wednesday, the 10th of October 2018, where it was launched on the 10th of September 2018. These operations, through which the attacking forces seek to terminate the presence of the “Islamic State” Organization east of Euphrates as a dominant force, where this Organization continues to be active in the rest of the areas that are outside of this enclave, in the form of sleeper cells that carry out bombings and assassinations and create chaos and insecurity in the areas that are under the control of Syria Democratic Forces, while this military operation came after weeks of preparations of bringing thousands of fighters by the Syria Democratic Forces and the Coalition to the perimeter of the ISIS-controlled enclave, which consists of the towns of Hajin, al-Susah, and Sha’afah, and al-Baghuz, and the villages of al-Marashdah, Om Hasan, al-Shajla, and al-Bobadran and the areas that connects between these village and town at the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, in addition to bringing large military reinforcements of armored vehicles, tanks, heavy machinery, bulldozers, heavy machineguns, and missiles, ammunition, and logistic equipment, all of them were entered on board of trucks to Syrian territory and transported to the vicinity of this enclave.