About 160 killed by military operations in Der-Ezzor

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was informed that smoke towers rising in the sky of Deir ez-Zor city, as a result of the organization “Islamic State” burned tires and barrels filled with crude oil in the squares of the city of Deir al-Zour, and that the organization was introduced by days of preparation for an attack on the city of Deir ez-Zor before, where the IS is trying to interfere with the military aircraft of the Russian forces and the  regime and which are aimed at the city intense strikes since the offensive began.
The fire is accompanied by clashes between the regime forces and IS around the military airport, Bor Saed, al-ommal, and Rasafa neighborhoods amid targeting IS locations with airstrikes.
The forces of order and desperate in their attempts with local militiamen to  regain control of the mountain overlooking the Deir ez-Zor region, dominated by the “Islamic state” and was able to split the city into two halves and the siege by regime forces in Deir Zor Airport and siege the neighborhoods of the city of Deir al-Zour in the first siege, in the deadliest attack by the IS since January 2016 where the IS attacked al-Baghilia and killed 150 soldiers  and kidnapped 400 others including soldiers, local militiamen and workers..
raised the number of civilians who were killed by aerial bombardment in Der-Ezzor to 37 including 6 children and 9 women, they are 10 killed by aerial bombardment in al-Ommal neighborhood, 5 including 2 women and 2 children killed by aerial bombardment on Der-Ezzor city, in addition to 6 civilians including a woman with 2 of her children and other woman killed by aerial bombardment on Mohasan, in addition to 16 civilians includin 2 women and a child were killed by IS bombardment targeted regime controlled areas of Der-Ezzor, while many others were wounded in addition to material damages in civilians properties. Also rose to 46 regime forces including officers and soldiers, and 75 IS including Syrian and Non Syrian militants, the number of fighters who were killed by clashes between the two sides in Der-Ezzor.