Hours after Manbij bombing killed 4 of its westerner members, the International Coalition starts airstrikes against what is left for ISIS on the east bank of Euphrates
Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored an intensive flight of the International Coalition warplanes over the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and carrying out raids and strikes targeting what remained for the “Islamic State” Organization at the east bank of Euphrates River, while the SDF continue their attempts to achieve a new advancement and control over the last 15 square kilometers of the Organization, at the east bank of the river. These raids come hours after the bombing that targeted Manbij city and killed 4 members of the International Coalition and injured others, in addition to killing 5 of their escorts of the local fighters with 10 civilians from Manbij city’ residents and people, while the Syrian Observatory monitored during the past hours that the Syrian Observatory monitored the continuation of movement of the International Coalition to and from the fronts of the fight, where several vehicles of the Coalition of American Hummer vehicles and military trucks entered, followed by the exit of several other vehicles, also the Syrian Observatory monitored the entry of at least 10 trucks to the contact lines and the front with the rest of the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization, to get a new batch the remaining civilians and ISIS members out to the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas.
And the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the Syria Democratic Forces were able to achieve a new important advancement and control the entire town of al-Susah and its surroundings, besieging ISIS in al-Baghuz Foqani town and in villages and residential communities connected to it, with a combined area of about 15 square kilometers on the east bank of Euphrates River, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources that the Syria Democratic Forces during their progress are still hampered by the heavily planted mines, while the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition are targeting positions of the Organization from the air if any resistance took place in the area, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored at the same time the exit and entry of several American Hummer vehicles and military trucks, to and from the area of frontline area with what is left for of the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization at the east bank of Euphrates River, while reliable sources suggested that the Coalition and SDF could within the next little time achieve a military victory in the area, while the Syrian Observatory published in the last hours that the “Islamic State” Organization continues its attempt to survive within the last of what remained for it east of Euphrates, which used to control large parts of it when it formed its “Caliphate”, where the Syria Democratic Forces together with ground forces of the International Coalition and the latter’s air support, clamp down more on the Organization which was stretching in the Euphrates river basin area on the east bank, with one area extending from Hajin to the Syrian-Iraqi border, where the Syria Democratic Forces were able to progress and besiege the Organization in al-Susah area and al-Baghuz Foqani town, after cutting its connections to the Iraqi territory and reducing its control in the rest of the areas that used to form the last enclave of the Organization in east Euphrates area, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several sources that a few hundred members of the “Islamic State” Organization -most of them are of Iraqi, Asian, Arab and other Western nationalities- are still trying to counter the progression of the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition, and try to expand its control in the east of Euphrates River by relying on what remained of “infiltrators and suicide bombers, and by detonating booby-trapped vehicles and relying on intensive mines planted by the Organization in the vicinity of its areas.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published about 24 hours that Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources that the countryside of Deir Ezzor witnessed at 17:00 on Tuesday, the 15th of January 2019, the exit of more than 1000 people of women, children, and old people, including young men and women, who left the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization at the east bank of Euphrates River and headed towards the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas, where some of them went out by private cars, while the rest went out on trucks the Syria Democratic Forces had brought this morning to the front area to transfer them to camps under the supervision of the Syria Democratic Forces, while it is expected for more civilians and family members of the Organization to come out in the coming hours, in a continuation for the flee operations from the remaining enclave of the Organization at the east bank of the river, in conjunction with the military operation that aim to ending its presence completely from the area.