More casualties raise to about 325, the number of SDF members who were killed in targeting, bombings, and assassinations in the east Euphrates area
Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: an explosion shook al-Shuhayl town east of Deir Ezzor at dawn on Friday, it was caused by the explosion of an IED when a column of the Syria Democratic Forces passed in the town, where the device exploded in one of vehicles of SDF, which killed 2 members and injured others, and with the fall of more casualties, it rose to 329 fighters, civilians, oil workers, and officials in service parties, the number of people killed in areas within the 4 provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah and Al-Hasakah, in addition to Manbij area in the northeast of Aleppo Province, which is controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces, where the Syrian Observatory monitored these cells assassinating 90 civilians including 4 women and 5 children in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, al-Hasakah countryside, al-Raqqah city and countryside, and Manbij area, in addition to the assassination of 234 fighters of the Syria Democratic Forces including local leaders in the same areas, and 4 members of International Coalition were killed, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Human monitored the injury of tens of people due to these assassinations.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published 18th of July 2019 that unidentified gunmen shot at the car of a commander in Deir Ezzor Military Council of the Syria Democratic Forces; in al-Dahla village in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, which injured his driver, and the Syrian Observatory published this morning that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored an IED explosion in Thiban town which is controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where the device exploded while 3 people were trying to plant it in the town on Wednesday evening, 2 of them were killed and the third was injured and managed to escape, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 16th of July 2019 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a force of the International Coalition and the Syria Democratic Forces raided al-Busayrah village in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, in order to arrest a cell of the “Islamic State” Organization in the village, after which clashes took place for long hours since midnight until the first morning hours where warplanes of the International Coalition intervened and targeted the center of the cell which refused to surrender, and he Syrian Observatory documented the killing of one of the group’s most prominent leaders in the area during the operation, and information about other casualties of the Syria Democratic Forces and the cell, and in the same context during the night hours as well, a cell belongs to the “Islamic State” Organization attacked al-Omar oilfield, in which there are leaders of the Coalition and an airport used by the Coalition, where clashes took place between guards of the airport and the cell which caused casualties in the ranks of both parties, where 4 at least of the SDF were killed and members of the Coalition forces were injured, and this attack is considered one of the most violent and largest attacks carried out by the Organization against al-Omar oilfield and the airport inside it.