(Pictures) the International Coalition escalates its strikes targeting the last 15 km² of ISIS with ground advancement attempt by the SDF and the western forces

Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored warplanes and helicopters of the International Coalition continue to fly over the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and carrying out from time to time airstrikes targeting the remaining enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization, which is about 15 km², after the Syria Democratic Forces supported by air and ground fire were able to reduce the Organization’s control after months of intense and continuous clashes, accompanied by heavy casualties from both parties of the fighting, while the Syrian Observatory monitored continued exchange of targeting between the Syria Democratic Forces and members of the organization, who remained in the enclave, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the 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 yesterday that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that hundreds of the people who remained in the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization; were able to leave it and head towards the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas, where the Syrian Observatory monitored the exit of about 1100 persons from the enclave of the Organization, most of them are children and women of Iraqi nationality including men of the same nationality including about 80 members of the Organization, boarded about 50 private cars and 10 trucks which were entered on Wednesday afternoon to the enclave of the Organization to transfer this batch, and headed to camps under the control and supervision of the Syria Democratic Forces within the east of Euphrates area, and by that the total number of people who have gotten out during the last 24 hours reached about 2200, including 180 members of the Organization, and in turn it rose to about 5300 persons, the number of people who have gotten out of the “Islamic State” Organization’s enclave including about 500 members of the Organization, since the 12th of January 2018, which is the date in which SDF started entering buses to transfer the people out of the front area.

And with more civilians coming out, it rose to 20700 the number of people who have gotten out of the organization’s enclave since early December 2018, of different nationalities of Syria, Iraq Russia, Somalia, Philippine and other Asian nationalities, and about 18650 of them have gotten out after the decision of the American president Trump to withdraw from Syria on the 19th of December 2018, including about 1180 members of the organization of those who infiltrated within the displaced people, and they were arrested after the residents recognized them and reported the security services about their infiltration, and the other group surrendered themselves after they managed to get out of ISIS last enclave, also people of those who fled confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the organization is greatly collapsed, and it cannot resist no more, where the organization depends in repelling the attacks, on the heavily-planted landmines, the booby trapped vehicles and the “suicide bombers”.

Pictures by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights show the bombardment that targeted areas in what is left for the “Islamic State” organization’s enclave at the eastern part of Euphrates River in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside