The “Islamic State” organization fights the battle of the last existence and more than 400 dead of the regime forces and the organization in less than two weeks
The clashes has not stopped for nearly two weeks in the eastern countryside of Hama, which in witnessing violent continuous military operations, the explosions are still shaking the villages and their surroundings, as a result of the violent air and land strikes that accompanied the fierce clashes between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against members of the “Islamic State” organization, where in the last 48 hours the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them with cover of heavy shelling and intense airstrikes by Russian warplanes and regime’s warplanes and helicopter, have carried out an offensive and violent attack, after which they were able to re-take control of Uqayribat town and Qulayb al-Thor village and other sites and hills they lost in the eastern countryside of Salamiyah city in the eastern countryside of Hama, within the circle that has been besieged for weeks by the regime forces, and the organization is now located in the last villages of the eastern countryside of Hama, while it carries out violent attacks every time in an attempt to maintain its presence in the eastern countryside of Hama, and if the regime forces were able to control the entire area that is still under the control of the “Islamic State” organization, they will be terminating the existence of organization completely in Hama province.
The violent clashes, exchange of shelling and bombings have caused more casualties in the ranks of both parties, where it rose to 407 at least, the number of casualties of both parties since the 3rd of September 2017 until the 15th of September 2017, where the organization’s death toll rose to 279 members, including about 21 members who blew themselves up in a booby-trapped vehicles and explosive belts, while it rose to 128, the number members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them who were killed in bombing and clashes, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received confirmed information that the “Islamic State” organization in the eastern countryside of Hama is keeping bodies and wounded of Russian forces who were killed and wounded in the eastern countryside of Hama, where the Russian forces are looking them.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published in the same period of time that the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them who are in Al-Sa’en area and the line separates between the controlled areas of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in the northeastern countryside of Hama and Wadi Al-Azeeb area opposite it, have arrested about 25 persons who were trying to cross the mine field which the organization planted in the vicinity of its positions in Al-Sa’en area, and local sources and other reliable confirmed to the SOHR that the 25 detainees are including 14 citizens at least including 11 persons of one family, including some citizen women in addition to a man and 4 of his children, in which the sources confirmed that the men of this family work in construction, they were all trying to cross to the controlled areas of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham by crossing the mine field, coming from place where hundreds of families gather in Wadi Al-Azeeb area and Ithriyah desert.
These arrests are coincided with the continuation of the military operations in the east of Hama, and the conditions of hundreds of families are getting worth day after day, with preventing them by the regime forces to cross to the controlled areas of the factions in the north-eastern countryside of Hama, and to Idlib province, in addition to preventing people by the “Islamic State” organization to cross, where the both parties target every attempt of displacement of escape carried by the citizens through the mine field which was planted by the organization in the line which it controls and the factions between the controlled areas of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the controlled areas of ISIS, and local sources confirmed that families turned 72 hours ago to try to cross the mine field, after they led in front of them a number of sheep and cattle, but the regime forces opened their fire on them which caused fear for the families to continue, so they returned to where they were within the controlled areas of the organization while the regime forces took the cattle,
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights observed on the 4th of September 2017, that about 600 persons, mostly children and women, managed to reach areas controlled by the factions and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham in the countryside of Hama and Idlib through Wadi Al-‘Azeeb area in the eastern countryside of Hama. Some of the citizens arriving from east of Hama confirmed to the SOHR activists that they took a road controlled by the regime forces and managed to avoid positions of the regime forces through roads and valleys passing between them. They also confirmed that the regime forces opened fire on them using their machine guns, causing the death of two persons at least, Thus, the number of civilians whose arrival has been documented by the SOHR during the past 48 hours rose to about 1350.
Where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 2nd of September that tens of families reached the controlled areas of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in the eastern countryside of Hama and headed towards Idlib, coming from Wadi al-Azeeb area in the north-eastern countryside of Salamiyah, in the eastern countryside of Hama, reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that about 750 persons most of them are children and citizen women managed to get out of Wadi al-Azeeb area and reach Al-Rahjan area, and some of them headed to the southern countryside of Idlib, after they crossed the controlled areas of the regime.
The Reliable sources confirmed to the activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the “Islamic State” organization warned citizens not to move from this area which is controlled by the regime forces, and that it is planted with mines and it is witnessing a movement of the regime forces’ patrols between the spread checkpoints along the line separated between the controlled areas of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions and the controlled areas of the “Islamic State” organization, but the desperation of the families that are waiting in tragic human conditions, forced them to risk themselves and their children to survive, and the safe arrival of some families to the areas controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham encouraged the rest of the families to get out sequentially, in which these families are trying to sneak during the night hours in order not to be targeted by the regime force, while the sources confirmed that the most of citizens in the villages which were controlled by the organization in the east of Hama, displaced to Wadi al-Azeeb area during the past days.