Recent developments across Syria
May 9, 2021
Regime-controlled areas
-SOHR activists in al-Qamishli city have reported that members of the National Defence Forces (NDF), based in Zenoud village (Zanda) in the south of al-Qamishli city, have taken by force, after shooting randomly in the air, food baskets and aid supplies from “al-Ousrah”, family in English, a Christian charity association that distributes aid supplies in the region.
-SOHR activists in the south of Syria reported a new assassination in which a member of the Fourth Division was shot dead by unidentified gunmen, in the town of Tel Shehab, near the Syrian-Jordanian border, west of Daraa.
-A young man opened fire on a lady with a Kalashnikova rifle, near al-Qaser al-Adeli district in Homs city, before he committed suicide by shooting himself. Reasons behind the accident and information about the lady’s health conditions remained unknown. The shooting came in light of the repercussions caused by the Syrian war such as chaos, weapons proliferation among civilians.
-SOHR activists reported that the factions of al-Fateh al-Mubin operations room shelled, at dawn today, regime positions in al-Dar al-Kabira frontline and other frontlines south of Idlib, but no casualties were reported. On the other hand, regime forces bombarded areas in al- Fterah, Benin, Fulayfel, and the outskirts of Sfuhen and al-Bara in the southern countryside of Idlib, and other areas in Sahl al-Ghab, northwest of Hama. On the other hand, a military leader of al-Sham Corps, which is close to Turkey, was killed in bombardment on Saraqeb frontline in the eastern countryside of Idlib.
SDF-held areas
-Reliable sources have told SOHR that Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested yesterday an alleged ISIS’s member when he was planting an explosive device in the village of Shuhayl in the countryside of Deir Ezzor before SDF exploded it.
-Observatory activists in the Syrian Jazeera have reported that a large number of irrigation stations were pot out of service due to the continuous decrease in the water level of the Euphrates River, after Turkey retained Syria’s share of the Euphrates’s water, amid growing popular dissatisfaction in the Jazeera region. Meanwhile, many power generation turbines have been ceased in al-Tabqah dam, due to the drop in water level, as well as the drying up of parts of it in several areas.
-SOHR activists have reported that gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying members of the “Self-Defense Forces” in the village of Al-Kabar in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, killing 4 members and injuring others, before the attackers managed to escape.
-SOHR sources have reported that a civilian was killed and others were injured, some seriously, in an armed fight between two families of Badina tribe in Tel Karmah village which is located nearly 13 kilometres to the east of al-Darbasiyyah in SDF-held areas in al-Hasakah countryside. According to local sources, the clashes erupted between the two families after a dispute over the overgrazing of sheep of one families in the farmlands of the other.
-SOHR sources have reported that a reconciliation meeting was held between al-Busraya and al-Sakhani tribes, after diligent efforts by mediators, the Civil Council and the Internal Security Forces (Asayish). It is worth noting that clashed between the two tribes had left casualties on both sides.
-Reliable sources have informed SOHR that a commander of the SDF-backed Manbij Military Council fled to an unknown destination this morning. According to SOHR sources, the Turkish-born Kurdish commander served as the commander of the artillery and heavy weapons regiment in the Manbij Military Council after he came to Syria to join battles of expelling ISIS from Ain al-Arab (Kobani) in eastern Aleppo. SOHR sources have suggested that the commander may escaped to Turkey.
-Syrian Observatory activists have reported the entry of a convoy of the International Coalition to Syria, as the convoy comprises nearly 25 vehicles, including armoured vehicles and trucks carrying vehicles, weapons and containers. The convoy headed to al-Qamishli and then to military bases in north and east Syria.
-Reliable sources have told SOHR that Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) and the International Coalition Forces launched, in the past few hours, a security campaign against ISIS cells in Sourarea in the northern desert of Deir Ezzor. Helicopters of the Coalition Forces have fired flares and other missiles on the area. The outcome of the operations hasn’t been reported yet.