Security chaos in SDF-held areas | Former ISIS member assassinated in Deir ez-Zor countryside

Deir ez-Zor governorate – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR sources say that two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle targeted a civilian, who was a former member of the Islamic State, with his companion, killing the civilian and injuring the his companion in the village of Al-Hawaij in Deir ez-Zor countryside.

It is worth noting that the victim hails from the village of Al-Hawaij, and had worked in the so-called “Zakat Court” of ISIS. He was accused of stealing the group’s money and fleeing to Turkey and then returned to his village after the SDF took control of the area.

Since July 2018 to date, the number of fighters, civilians, oil workers and civil servants assassinated in Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Al-Hasakah provinces and SDF-controlled Manbij area in northeastern Aleppo province increased to 671 persons.

The Syrian Observatory has documented the assassination of 241 civilians by armed cells, including 17 children and 12 women in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, Al-Hasakah countryside, Raqqa city and countryside and Manbij, in addition to the assassination of 425 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 these assassinations.