About 400 casualties during a week of violent fighting in the Syrian Desert and the regime forces continue to fail to retake what the groups of the organization controlled

The violent clashes are continuing in several areas in the eastern and he south-eastern deserts, for the seventh consecutive day, between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the “Islamic State” organization, in which the violent clashes are concentrated between the both parties in the north and the east of Al-Sukhnah and the vicinity of the areas of the Third Station, Jabal Al-Heel, as well as violent clashes in the vicinity of Hmimeh with the continuation of the organization’s attack on the area, in which ISIS managed to achieve new advancement and take the control of points in Al-Heel Oil Field area, while ISIS still control Al-Qaryatayn city, Al-Tayba town and Al-Dahik mountain in the north of Al-Sukhnah and the south-eastern countryside of Homs, in conjunction with the continuation of the violent clashes against the regime forces which are trying to recover what they lost under an intensive aerial and rocket cover, amid successive failure by the regime forces to recover the areas they lost, in which the clash areas in the desert are being bombed by warplanes as well as violent and continuous rocket shelling

The shelling and the continuous violent clashes caused more casualties and wounded in the ranks of the both parties, in which it rose to 385 the number of casualties in the ranks of the both parties of who have been documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, since the 28th of September 2017, until the 4th of October 2017, in which the death toll rose to 197 members at least of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, including 26 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah and about 80 members of the militiamen loyal to the regime forces of Palestinian and Asian nationalities, while the death toll rose to about 188 members of ISIS of who were killed by blowing themselves up by using suicidal belts and by booby trapped vehicles and in artillery and rocket shelling and raids and clashes against the regime forces in the areas where they attacked, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday, that violent clashes are taking place between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the members of the “Islamic State” organization, in areas at the administrative border between the south-eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor and the eastern countryside of Homs, where the clashes are concentrated in places in Hmimeh area, where the organization carried out an attack hours ago, amid advancing the organization in the area.