Regime forces manage to achieve new advancement in the desert of the south-eastern Rif Dimashq

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: violent clashes are taking place between regime supported by militiamen loyal to them on one hand, and the rebel factions of the forces of Ahmad al-Abdu and Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiyyah, in areas near the Syrian-Jordanian border in the south-eastern countryside of the capital, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that regime forces managed to take the control of about 5 positions of which were controlled by the factions, including border posts, where the clashes are accompanied by exchange of shelling between the both parties and shelling by regime forces on the clash areas and locations of factions’ presence, and information about casualties in the ranks of the both parties.

The SOHR published on the 10th of August 2017 that the regime forces advancement left the factions with no door 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.