The regime forces continue their attacks in Deir Ezzor city under a cover of continuous shelling as a part of their efforts to end the presence of ISIS in the city
Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the regime forces are continuing their military operations in Deir Ezzor city, trying to achieve new advancement, enables them to clamp down on the organization and minimize its scope of control in a preparation for ending its presence in the city, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the violent clashes are still continuing between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the members of the “Islamic State” organization, in which the clashes are concentrated in areas in Al-Hamidiyah neighborhood in the city, and other areas in Al-Rashdiyah, Al-Jabilah and Al-Hwiqa, amid shelling by the regime forces on the clash areas and the controlled areas of the organization, in conjunction with targeting in the contact areas between them, and information about casualties in the ranks of the both parties.
While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Sunday, that the regime forces managed to achieve important advancement, and they took the control of parts of Al-Hamidiyah neighborhood which is the biggest neighborhood in Deir Ezzor city, and the Syrian Observatory also published that although the organization used the advantage of the bad weather to carry out counter attacks on the positions of the regime forces during night, the regime forces backed by gunmen loyal to them, also manage to carry out a violent attack, and advanced controlling Al-Arfi and Al-Ommal neighborhoods, and imposed full control on the area of the Municipal Stadium and the nearby sports constructions in the vicinity of Al-Ommal neighborhood, thus, the regime forces managed to clamp down on the organization greatly in Deir Ezzor city, and the violent fighting between the both parties was accompanied intensive shelling by the regime forces, while the Russian warplanes as well as regime’s warplanes carried out tens of raids on the controlled areas of the organization in Deir Ezzor city, and the clashes which the city witnessed during the past hours, were the most violent ones since the siege on the city was lifted on the 10th of September 2017, and left large numbers of casualties in the ranks of the both parties in Deir Ezzor city, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of more 50 members of ISIS in these clashes as well as the accompanied shelling, while 23 members at leas of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities were killed, and other members in the ranks of the both parties were injured with varying degrees of severity.