For the third time in about 10 weeks… Airstrikes target leaders of a factions which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” organization near the border with the Golan
Airstrikes on the Courthouse kill several prisoners and leaders in Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid in al-Shajra town
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources, which confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the strikes that were carried out by unidentified warplanes on the Courthouse in al-Shajra town which is controlled by Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid (which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” organization) have caused confirmed human losses, where at least 8 prisoners who were in a court were killed, most of them are relatives of Abu Ali al-Bridi AKA “al-Khal” (the Uncle), who is the founder of Shuhada’a al-Yarmouk Brigade which turned to Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid Later, where the majority of the prisoners were arrested on charges of “storing weapons after the killing of al-Bridi in an explosion that targeted him with other leaders and members of the brigade in mid-November 2015”.
The sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that at least 3 leaders of Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid were killed in this air targeting, which took place on Thursday the 17th of August 2017, and it is likely to include the commander of Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid known as Abu Tim Inkhil, the sources confirmed that the Courthouse in al-Shajra town is witnessing frequent meetings of leaders of Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid, it also witnesses repeated presence of security members and commands of the first and second grades of Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid, the town of al-Shajra is also witnessing a curfew in conjunction with a security cordon on the vicinity of the Courthouse building which was targeted by the airstrikes and in the vicinity of the town, preventing the entry and exit of any person from and to the town until further notice.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published at the end of June 2017 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was informed by reliable sources that a warplane (which is still unknown whether it belongs to an Arab country or the International Coalition) targeted today a meeting of the first class leadership of Khalid Ibn al-Walid, of which Shuhada’a al-Yarmouk Brigade is its mainstay, in addition to the Islamic Muthanna movement, in Jellin town in the western countryside of Daraa city, where reliable sources informed the Syrian Observatory that the commander-in-chief of Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid was killed with 3 sharia men and another prominent military commander and another commander, plus 4 members at least, the targeting also injured several others including commanders and Sharia men, which may raise in the death toll. in the same context, SOHR received confirmed information that Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid has appointed a new leader, it is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 7th of June 2017 that airstrikes were carried out by unidentified warplanes (it is not known whether they belong to the International Coalition or not) on Jomla area adjacent to the border with the occupied Syrian Golan, and on other places at Yarmouk valley in the western countryside of Daraa, killing and injuring tens of commanders and members of Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” organization, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, these warplanes targeted shortly before the midnight of Tuesday sites of Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid in Jomla area and areas close to it in the Yarmouk valley, which injured and killed tens of members, at least 12 of them were confirmed of the commanders and members of Jaysh Khalid Ibn Al-Walid which swore allegiance to the organization.