Warplane in the sky of the desert of al-Suwaidaa was hit and the helicopters target the Western Ghouta

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a warplane belongs to the Syrian regime was hit in the sky of the eastern desert of Suwaidaa, where it was targeted by Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiyyah and Ahmad al-Abdu factions in Wadi Mahmoud valley, and there is information about its fall due to the targeting of the faction. In a related context, the clashes are still taking place between Ahmad al-Abdu and Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiyyah on one hand, and the regime forces and their allied militiamen on the other. The clashes are accompanied by aerial and missile shelling on the clash areas, there is information about more human losses in the ranks of both parties.  The Syrian Observatory published yesterday that clashes continue, with varied pace of violence, in several areas in the eastern dessert of Al-Suwaidaa between Ahmad Al-Abdu Forces and Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiyyah on one hand and the regime forces and their allied militiamen on the other. Clashes are accompanied by shelling and an exchange of targeting between both parties, the regime forces managed to advance into the area which enabled them to take control of Kherbet al-Jarbou’ area. Clashes left casualties at both sides.

The SOHR published on the 10th of August that violent clashes took place in al-Suwaidaa Desert between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the forces of Ahmad al-Abdu and Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiyyah in areas in the northeast countryside of al-Suwaidaa city, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights  learned that the regime forces managed to advance in the area and control sites on the border, thus ending the presence of factions on the Syrian-Jordanian border within the administrative borders of Al-Suwaidaa Province, while the clashes were accompanied by exchange of shelling between both parties and airstrikes on the clash areas, and information about casualties.

With this advancement, the factions now have no window to the outside in east and southeast of Syria, except for a border strip on the southeast border of Rif Dimashq with Jordan, in addition to a border strip with Iraq extending over the provinces of Rif Dimashq and Homs, which includes al-Tanf border crossing between Syria and Iraq. This advancement came after more than a month of a continuous attack by the regime forces about a month ago; after less than 48 hours of the start of the Syrian south truce, of which the factions working in the countryside of al-Suwaidaa said that they were not notified by any party about the agreement and its items, which took place by a Russian-American-Jordanian consensus and entered into force since the 9th of July 2017 in the provinces of Al-Suwaidaa, Quneitra and Daraa.

Rif Dimashq province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: Helicopters dropped several barrel bombs on areas in Magher al-Meer in the Western Ghouta, and the shelling was accompanied by the mortar shelling of the regime forces on the same areas, and no information about casualties so far.