The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

ISIS resurgence: unidentified gunmen attack SDF members, leaving six dead or injured in Deir ez-Zor countryside

Reliable source have informed SOHR that unidentified gunmen fired machine guns today at a SDF vehicle in Thiban town in eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, killing two members and injuring four others.

It is worth mentioning that ISIS cells are active in areas held by SDF in Deir ez-Zor countryside.

The number of fighters, civilians, oil workers and officials in service agencies who were assassinated in four provinces: Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Al-Hasakah, in addition to Manbij area in northeastern Aleppo province, which is controlled by SDF, increased to 450 persons.

The Syrian Observatory documented the assassination of 145 civilians by armed cells, including eight children and five women in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, Al-Hasakah countryside, Raqqa city and countryside and manbij, in addition to the assassination of 300 fighters of SDF, including local leaders in the same areas, while four members of the International Coalition were killed, dozens of wounded were also reported by SOHR as a result of those assassinations.