Intensive raids target Deir Ezzor city and the “Islamic State” organization carries out an attack on sites of the regime forces

Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Warplanes carried out several raids on areas in al-Bokamal city located in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, while the Russian warplanes continued their intensive targeting of areas in the neighborhoods that still under the control of the “Islamic State” organization in Deir Ezzor city, in conjunction with violent clashes in Hwijat Sakr area between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the “Islamic State” organization, after an attack by ISIS on the area starting from some of the besieged neighborhoods, and confirmed information about casualties in the ranks of both parties.

In the same context, the violent clashes continue in areas in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor, between the “Islamic State” organization against the Syria Democratic Forces, after the continued attempts by “Jazeera Storm” Operation to achieve more advancement in the area, coincided with aerial bombardment by International Coalition warplanes which targeted the clash areas, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that these clashes and the advancement attempts coincide with the entry of the SDF to the villages which the organization withdrew from, on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River in the north-western countryside of Al-Raqqah, in which cross-sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the SDF started to enter the villages of al-Hesan, Shaqra, Ji’aa and al-Alayna, after the organization withdrew from them few days before unannounced agreement with the SDF, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published 3 days ago, what a number of reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that the “Islamic State” organization withdrew from the villages that were under its control in the area between al-Husseiniya village -which is controlled by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them- and Mhimideh village -which is controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces, these villages are: Al-Jninah, Shaqra, Ji’aa, al-Alayna, al-Hesan, Sfireh Foqani and Sfireh Tahtani east of the Euphrates River and northwest of Deir Ezzor city, the sources confirmed that the organization withdrew from these villages towards areas in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where the Syria Democratic Forces have entered several villages and started sweeping where they entered, in conjunction with completing their advancement towards the rest of the villages which are now ISIS-free, thus, the entire northwestern countryside of Deir Ezzor is free from the “Islamic State” organization.

The Sources informed the Syrian Observatory that the withdrawal took place by an unannounced agreement between the organization and the “Jazeera Storm” Operation, by securing a withdrawal corridor for the organization towards its controlled areas in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, in exchange for getting out of these villages, and with this agreement the area stretching from the north of Deir Ezzor city near the eastern banks of the Euphrates River opposite to Deir Ezzor city until Al-Raqqah administrative border, and from the administrative border of Al-Hasaka Province border near Markadah until Khrizah Desert east of Koniko field are under the control of the Syria Democratic forces, except for the villages on the Euphrates River and opposite to Deir Ezzor city and its airbase, which are controlled by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities.