The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

As Turkey hint about battle of the border strip between both rivers, widespread resentment among the Kurds because of sending more SDF forces and leaving the north

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored widespread dissatisfaction among the Kurdish circles and residents of the eastern Euphrates towns, cities, and villages, due to the continued send of the military forces by Syria Democratic Forces to the perimeter of the ISIS-controlled enclave, in preparation for a military operation against ISIS at the east banks of Euphrates; at a time when areas in the Syrian north in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, are being targeted by the Turkish Forces, who began to mobilize on the border strip on the Turkish side off the eastern Euphrates area, in conjunction with preparations with factions of the “Olive Branch” and “Euphrates Shield” Operations, for the ground military operation of which Turkey is talking about starting it at any time, and control the border strip from the Tigris River to Euphrates River in the Syrian north in the area east of Euphrates, after the strikes started on the 29th of October 2018, and targeted Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) and Tal Abyad.

The Syrian Observatory published this morning that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information confirmed that at least 100 members of the special forces coming from Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) have entered the contact area with the “Islamic State” Organization, at the outskirts of its last enclave on the east banks of Euphrates River, the sources confirmed that with the arrival of these fighters, it rose to 1100, the number of fighters of the special task forces of YPG and Syria Democratic Forces, in addition to more than 200 fighters of the self-defense forces, and more than 2000 fighters of al-Sh’aytat clan, in a continuation of military preparations by the International Coalition and the Syria Democratic Forces; to start a military operation against the last enclave of ISIS Organization after suspending it less than 24 hours ago temporarily, in objection at the Turkish strikes that targeted areas of Tal Abyad in the northern countryside of al-Raqqah and Ayn al-Arab (Kobani).

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored the entry of about 150 trucks coming from the Syrian-Iraqi border, to areas controlled by Syria Democratic Forces, carrying logistical equipment and weapons, also the Syrian Observatory learned that the intense strikes of the International Coalition warplanes yesterday night on al-Azraq Field area have killed at least 7 members of the “Islamic State” Organization, raising the number of killed and executed persons since the 10th of September 2018, where it rose to at least 516  fighters and commanders of the “Islamic State” Organization, they were killed in the clashes and the strikes of the International Coalition and SDF since the start of the military operations on the 10th of September 2018, and also it rose to 315 at least, one of them was a field commander of Deir Ezzor Military Council of the Syria Democratic Forces, the members of the SDF who were killed in clash against ISIS, and the death toll is expected to increase as there is information about other human losses and the presence of injured cases in serious conditions, and 2 girls who were killed in shelling by SDF on the ISIS-enclave, and 5 citizens were killed in bombing by the International Coalition on the same enclave, in addition to 63 civilians including 12 children and 5 citizen women, were killed in airstrikes by the International Coalition on a mosque and Koranic institute in al-Susah town within ISIS-enclave at the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, the majority of whom are Iraqi nationals including families of members of the “Islamic State” organization, and in strikes targeted a house in al-Bobadran village.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition resumed their shelling against the last enclave left under the control of the “Islamic State” organization, where the SOHR monitored shelling by the SDF and the Coalition targeting areas in Hajin town, along with the overflight of the International Coalition’s warplanes over the area, amid their heavy targeting to the area of Al-Haql Al-Azraq (the Blue Field), targeting members of the organization who infiltrated to this area, where the bombardment continued for less than an hour, while the Syrian Observatory has not monitored the preparations returning to the normal mode, after the decision of the Syria Democratic Forces and their commanders to suspend the operation temporarily, in an objection to the Turkish shelling on the Syrian North within the area of the Euphrates’ east, which is coincided with the military operation against the organization in its last enclave in the east of the Euphrates River.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago, that reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the Syria Democratic Forces have stopped “Al-Jazeera Storm” Operation against the last enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization at the east banks of Euphrates River, in conjunction with the preliminary shelling by the Turkish forces on the Syria Democratic Forces and their controlled areas and positions in the countryside of Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) and Tal Abyad, which claimed the lives of 4 self-Defense Forces fighters, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the suspension of preparations despite the arrival of thousands of fighters to the battlefronts, where it rose to 1000, the number members of the YPG and SDF Special Forces who came from al-Raqqah, in addition to more than 200 of the self-defense forces and over 2000 fighters of al-Sh’aytat Clans, they reached the battlefronts with the Organization and the special forces positioned in a military site near the last enclave of the Organization at the east bank of Euphrates.

The activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the stop of all movements towards the front, in addition to the stop of the rocket and artillery shelling on the Organization’s sites, and the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the military commanders in the eastern Euphrates were informed by the military command to stop all operations, movements, and mobilization, until the stop of the Turkish shelling definitively on the east of Euphrates areas, which claimed the lives of 4 fighters of the self-defense forces and injured others of varying severity, while the Syrian Observatory published hours ago that as the military preparations for the last battle against the “Islamic State” Organization east of Euphrates continue, the Syrian Observatory learned that the International Coalition warplanes have carried out intensive bombardment since before midnight of yesterday until dawn of today, Wednesday, targeting positions of the “Islamic State” Organization in its remaining enclave on the east banks of Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, then the frequency of bombardment returned to be sporadic, but no information about casualties until the moment. These raids come in the framework of the preliminary strikes to disperse the ranks of the Organization, and the Syrian Observatory also published last night that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the International Coalition’s warplanes carried out strikes today evening on the contact lines of the “Islamic State” organization with the Syria Democratic Forces, at the outskirts of the enclave which is controlled by the organization east of the Euphrates River, without information about casualties so far, along with the ongoing preparations by the International Coalition and the SDF for starting the final military operation against the organization in the east of the Euphrates, with the aim of ending the presence of the organization as a dominating power from the entire area of the Euphrates’ east, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that members of the “Islamic State” organization have carried out an attack targeting posts of the SDF in the desert of Deir Ezzor countryside, near the contact lines with the organization, which pushed the International Coalition’s warplane to bomb the area where they killed more than 9 members of the organization by their airstrikes, after clashes that took place between members of the organization against the Syria Democratic Forces.