The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

US-backed desert factions carry out a counter attack and advance at the expense of the regime forces southeast of Rif Dimashq

Violent clashes are still taking place between Ahmed Al-Abdu Forces and Usud al-Sharqiyyah backed by the International Coalition against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, at the outskirts of the Syrian desert in the southeastern countryside of Rif Dimashq, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the continued violent clashes are taking place for the third day on a raw in the area, and these clashes are accompanied by intense and violent shelling between both parties, where the factions managed to advance and control a hill near Bir al-Qasab area near Tal Dakwa, while the factions are still carrying out their counter attack and trying to regain control over positions they lost yesterday in favor of the regime forces, who attacked the area of Tal Dakwa, after the advancement of the regime forces the day before yesterday and controlling Tal al-Abd, which is located about 15 kilometers east of al-Dumayr Airbase.

Reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the factions managed to capture members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, while an exchange of targeting took place between both parties, which caused human losses in the ranks of both parties, while the continued clashes are taking place in an attempt by each party to advance at the expense of the other, where each part is trying to advance at the expense of the other to expand the size of its controlled areas in the Syrian desert and in the outskirts of the Eastern al-Qalamoun.