The desert of Rif Dimashq witnesses ongoing fighting between its factions and the regime forces

Rif Dimashq province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: the clashes are still ongoing between the regime forces and their allied militiamen against fighters of Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiyyah and Ahmed al-Abdu Forces in the vicinity of Mahruthah area and Mahmoud Valley areas in the Syrian Desert in the eastern Rif Dimashq, and the clashes are accompanied by 2 airstrikes on the clash  areas, amid an exchange of targeting between both parties, and shelling by the regime forces on the factions-held areas, and each party is trying to advance at the expense of the other.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that 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 also 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.