Security vacuum in east Euphrates: SDF fighter assassinated and IED explodes in SDF checkpoint in rural Deir Ezzor

Deir Ezzor Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:SOHR activists have reported that an IED went off this morning near an SDF checkpoint in Theban town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. No casualties have been reported.

In another incident, unknown assailants shot dead an SDF fighter from Mohasan city in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. The assassination took place yesterday in Al-Takihi village, east of Deir Ezzor.

As more people were killed, it rose to 460 fighters, civilians, oil workers, and officials in service parties, the number of people who were killed in areas within the four provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah and Al-Hasakah, in addition to the SDF-held area of Manbij in the north-east of Aleppo.

Syrian Observatory documented the assassination of 149 civilians including eight children and six women by armed cells in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, al-Hasakah countryside, al-Raqqah city and countryside, and Manbij area. In addition, 305 SDF fighters, including local leaders, were assassinated in the same areas.

Also four members of International Coalition were killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Human also documented tens of injuries due to these assassinations.