The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After regime forces’ fail to advance towards it… Daily airstrikes target Sokhna town: the gateway of regime’s battle in Deir Ezzor

Homs province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: al-Sukhna area which is about 60 kilometers northeast of Palmyra city, is witnessing a daily bombardment by the warplanes that target the town and its vicinity, causing damage to the property citizens and injuring people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the daily airstrikes came after regime forces’ fail (who are about 40 km southwest of the city) to achieve a new advancement and reach the town, where the regime forces aim to advance towards it and control it.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also learned that if the regime forces restore Sokhna town in the eastern countryside of Homs in the coming periods, will allow them to advance towards the administrative borders of the Syrian Desert with Deir Ezzor province, and conduct a military operation in Deir Ezzor province, which is controlled mostly by the “Islamic State” organization, it is referred that Sokhna town is about 50 km away of the administrative borders of Desert with Deir Ezzor.

Pictures by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights document the destruction caused by the shelling and bombing by the regime forces, warplanes and helicopters on al-Sokhna town in the eastern desert of Homs
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