The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After the triple suicide attack that killed 6 of them, SDF advance in Baghuz farms with a cover of intense missile and aerial bombardment within the decisive battle

Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory monitored intense and escalating shelling targeted Baghuz farms in the eastern countryside of Deir countryside, where the International Coalition warplanes carried out intensive airstrikes and raids on areas of presence of the remaining members of the “Islamic State” Organization in the area, in conjunction with intensive rocket shelling by the Syria Democratic Forces, where the shelling in the battlefield is accompanied by clashes between the Syria Democratic Forces and ISIS members, amid new advancement for SDF in the area with the cover of the intense bombardment, and the Syrian Observatory learned that the Syria Democratic Forces brought military reinforcements to the area, as part of their quest to resolve the battle and force the remainder members of the “Islamic State” Organization to surrender, while the Syrian Observatory monitored an exit operation on Friday from Baghuz farms, where about 215 persons including 100 ISIS members have gotten out and the rest of them are their families, as the majority of who came out yesterday and reached the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas are of foreign nationalities, the and exit process came yesterday after 3 suicide bombings in which 6 members of the Syria Democratic Forces were killed, raising the number of people who have been documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights since early December 2018 to 61515 people, they got out of Baghuz farms and ISIS enclave before being besieged within this area, including more than 59515 people have gotten out the Organization’s enclave since the decision of the US President Trump to withdraw from Syria on the 19th of December 2018, including about 6790 members of the “Islamic State” Organization, and the majority of them are of Iraqi nationality, who have been arrested among the displaced people, after the residents were able to identify them and inform the security forces about their infiltration, while another part of them handed themselves over after they managed to get out of the last enclave of the Organization, also the Syrian Observatory learned that during the past days and weeks about 300 ISIS members managed to infiltrate through the Euphrates River to the largest and last remaining enclave of the Organization in the Syrian Desert within the areas that are controlled by the regime forces, Russians, and the Iranians in north of Palmyra, at the same time, the Syrian Observatory documented the transfer and handover of hundreds of members of the “Islamic State” Organization and its fighters to the Iraqi authorities, and the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: about 400 members of the “Islamic State” Organization including members of western nationalities were transported and handed over to the Iraqi army.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a number of members of the Syria Democratic Forces were killed in the suicidal bombings which took place in the recent hours by suicide bombers of the “Islamic State” organization, and the SOHR learned that 6 members of the Syria Democratic Forces were killed due to bombings by 3 persons (2 women and a man) who blew themselves up using explosive belts, after claiming that they came out of the organization’s tunnels and trenches in Al-Baghuz farms and head towards the controlled areas of the SDF, and as the latter’s members were advancing to take them, the 3 suicide bombers blew themselves up.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published yesterday that the stop of shelling less than two hours ago; led to the exit of a large batch of hundreds of members of the “Islamic State” Organization who were in tunnels and trenches of Baghuz farms, along with members of their families who were in the same area, where they are expected to arrive at the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas fully, to take them to detention centers and relocate the families to al-Hool camp, after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published that the combat operations and the decisive operation in Baghuz farms on the east bank of Euphrates River continue, where military operations escalate at night and gets calm as the day begins, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the stop of combat operations about an hour ago on the clash fronts and the contact lines between SDF and ISIS in Baghuz farms, where the hours of last night until this morning witnessed successive strikes by the International Coalition, targeted areas of presence of the Organization and its positions in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, then the calm returned, and a new batch is likely to get out in the next few hours in case a new round of violent clashes between both parties did not take place, which killed about 11 fighters of the Syria Democratic Forces in addition to 16 fighters of the Organization, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continued clashes and military operations in the area of Al-Baghuz farms in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; the Syria Democratic Forces continued their attack and managed to achieve advancement in a number of points within the area of Al-Baghuz farms and hold their control of them, which pushed the organization with its remaining members to carry out counter attacks using booby-trapped vehicles and suicide bombers, and reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that at least 5 ISIS members blew themselves up by explosive belts and booby-trapped vehicles, which caused material damage, within 16 casualties in the ranks of the organization, while the SOHR documented the death of 11 members at least of the SDF, in addition to the injury of others, while the clashes are still continued between the both parties in an attempt to achieve further advancement and force what left of the organization to surrender or get out of the tunnels and trenches they hide in, while the SOHR published hours ago, that violent clashes are taking place between the remainder members of the “Islamic State” Organization against the Syria Democratic Forces and the International Coalition, in places in Baghuz farms area in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside on the east bank of Euphrates River, and the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the Organization took advantage of the dust storm that hit the Deir Ezzor countryside area, and carried out a counterattack against SDF in the area, by about 5 booby-traps vehicles and suicide bombers, in conjunction with an attack by “infiltration” members of the Organization, in an attempt to inflict the largest number of casualties among Syria Democratic Forces, and reliable sources confirmed that the attack occurred suddenly and in hours considered crucial for the underway battle in the area, which aims to completely eliminate the Organization and end its presence in the area, where the clashes killed at least 9 ISIS members, with confirmed information about casualties among SDF due to bombings, and the clashes were accompanied by bombardment by the International Coalition which detonated a booby-trapped vehicle of the Organization, while the clashes continue with exchange of targeting by machineguns and medium and heavy weapons between both parties.