After more than 20 months of killing, executing and abducting hundreds of people in al-Bogeleyyah…the regime forces regain control of large portions of it with a cover of intense shelling
Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the outskirts of the Deir Ezzor city and its surroundings are witnessing explosions caused by the continued military operations by the regime forces in an attempt to expand their control in the area, in preparation for the operations that the regime forces are preparing to start within the city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the violent clashes are still taking place between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against members of the “Islamic State” organization, in areas in the vicinity of Deir Ezzor city, its outskirts and vicinity, and cross-sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the regime forces were able to achieve advancement in the area and controlled vast parts of Al-Bogeleyyah area in the northwest of Deir Ezzor city, amid continued violent clashes in a quest by the regime Forces to take control over the entire area, after they have taken in the last 24 hours over al-Rowwad residences and Al-Jazeera Private University, and the clashes are accompanied by heavy and intense shelling by the regime forces, also clashes are taking place east of the city in an effort to secure Deir Ezzor airbase and keep the organization away of the airbase in order to be used in the upcoming military operations in the countryside of Deir Ezzor.
The regime forces lost Al-Bogeleyyah area at the beginning of 2016, after a sudden and violent attack carried out by the organization on the 16th of January 2016, where the Syrian Observatory documented back then that at least 120 members and officers of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them were killed, 40 of them at least were executed in al-Bogeleyyah area, also 70 members of the “Islamic State” organization were killed and at least 28 of them detonated themselves up in booby trapped vehicles or explosive belts, also Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented back then the death of at least 135 persons and members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, where the Observatory was informed by several reliable sources that among the 135 who were killed and executed, there are at least 50 members from the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were killed and executed during the “Islamic state” attack on Al-Bogeleyyah area up to the outskirts of al-Jura area and detonating booby trapped vehicles and carrying out executions, in addition to the presence of 85 persons from the families of the members of NDF, national army and Baathists from the city, while 42 member from the “Islamic State” organization (including 12 infiltrators and members who blew themselves up with explosive belts in the same attack) were killed, where back then the “Islamic State” organization kidnapped about 400 persons of civilians and family members of the regime forces, but later the “Islamic State” organization released about 250 of them.