The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After releasing the kidnapped people of al-Suwaidaa, “reconciliation” factions lose about 25 of their members in the violent clashes against ISIS in Tlul al-Safa

Areas in the desert of Rif Dimashq at the administrative border with al-Suwaidaa countryside; are witnessing the continuation of military operations of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, in addition to the factions of the “reconciliation”, at the expense of the “Islamic State” Organization, where the violent clashes continue between both parties and concentrated within Tlul al-Safa, where the regime forces and their allies seek to go deeper into the area and control more sites and points, in order to end the presence of the organization in the area, while the organization is desperately trying to repel the attacks and hold its positions in its last enclave in the area, and occasionally it carries out ambushes and counterattacks against the regime forces and their allies, also the violent clashes are accompanied by continuous aerial and missile shelling targeting the “Islamic State” organization’s-controlled areas, and the Syrian Observatory documented more human casualties since after the release of the rest of the abductees and the decision of the regime forces and their allies to end the organization there, where it rose to 28 including 23 members of the “reconciliation” factions, the number of members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them who were killed during the targeting and clashes against the Organization, and the Syrian Observatory documented the death of at least 30 members of the “Islamic State” organization in shelling and clashes in the same period, raising to at least 236, the number of members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them and the “reconciliation” factions; who were killed in bombings, shelling, and clashes since the 25th of July 2018, including members of the Lebanese Hezbollah one of them is a Lebanese leader, in addition to officers of various ranks of the regime forces the highest of them is a General, also at least 411 members of the “Islamic State” Organization were killed in the same period, and the clashes injured hundreds of both parties with varying severity.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Saturday the 10th of November 2018 that it monitored the escalated pace of violent clashes within the vicinity of Tlul Al-Safa area, in the wake of releasing the people who were kidnapped by the “Islamic State” organization, where the Syrian observatory monitored the continued violent clashes since yesterday after the midnight and until now, between the regime forces and their allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the members of the “Islamic State” organization, who are besieged in the area of Tlul Al-Safa near the administrative border of Al-Suwaidaa province, amid counterattacks through which the organization tends to exploit the bad weather, to inflict the largest possible number of casualties in the ranks of the regime forces and their allies, after reliable sources confirmed to the SOHR that after the release of the abductees 6 of whom were executed or died, the Russian forces and regime forces decided to end the presence of the “Islamic State” organization completely in Tlul Al-Safa area at the administrative border between Al-Suwaidaa and Rif Dimashq.

The SOHR also published yesterday that it monitored in the past 24 hours, that the organization carried out a counterattack in the area of Qa’ Al-Banat in the south-west of Tlul Al-Safa, amid confirmed information about casualties and wounded in the ranks of the both parties, while the area is witnessing successive targeting operations by the regime forces on positions of the organization in the area, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 9th of November 2018, that it has obtained information from intersected sources, who confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that 3 of al-Suwaidaa abductees (2 children and a woman) died before the abductees were handed over to the Syrian regime in the eastern desert of al-Sokhna, where the body of the woman is still missing but the bodies of both children were brought, raising to 6 people (2 children, a boy and 3 citizen women), the number of abductees who died and executed by the “Islamic State” Organization and during the detention period, which began on the 25th of July 2018. Reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory that the discontent is mixed with happiness of al-Suwaidaa people for the return of abductees, and this resentment comes against the backdrop of the death of the 6 abductees; amid regime’s carelessness and its attempt to promote a “victory” by promoting that a military operation released the kidnapped people, at a time where the people are questioning the ways in which the kidnapped people were transported for hundreds of kilometers across the desert; while Tlul al-Safa area is still besieged by the regime forces and their allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources who confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the “Islamic State” organization released the remaining abductees of al-Suwaidaa, who have been kidnapped since the 25th of July 2018, were the organization abducted them and transported them after a violent attack considered the most violent by the organization on al-Suwaidaa Province, and the sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the process of releasing the abductees and handing them over to the regime took place in the eastern desert of al-Sukhnah in Homs province, in exchange for releasing the imprisoned women by regime’s authorities; whose names were given by the organization in lists, they are family members of leaders in the Organization and close to it, but it is not known who much was paid to the Organization in exchange for the release process, which was accelerated after the mobilizations of the regime forces in Tlul al-Safa area on the administrative border between the provinces of al-Suwaidaa and Rif Dimashq.