The regime forces advance and fight ISIS to control one village out of 4 villages and towns remained under the control of ISIS west of the Euphrates River

Deir Ezzor province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: the SOHR learned from several sources that clashes are still ongoing with a violent pace between the regime forces and their allied militiamen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against those remained of ISIS members in areas located in Al-Quriyah town, which the regime forces seek to control, and if the regime forces control this town, the organization would be besieged inside Al-Ashara town, and would be in control of 3 towns and villages in the whole western bank of the Euphrates River, and the clashes coincided today in the western banks of the Euphrates River, with heavy shelling on towns and villages in the banks of the Euphrates, which left people killed and injured, where 5 citizens were killed , including 2 women, one of them was with her daughter and another woman, and others were injured, following fall of shells on areas in the town of Al-Jarzi in the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, and the people accused the regime forces of targeting the area, and a man was killed in aerial shelling on areas in Abu Hardob village, while a man died affected by his injuries in shelling by the regime forces on areas in Al-Baghoz town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and the regime forces targeted by artillery and missile shelling areas in the organization-held areas east of the Euphrates River, causing material damage, and no information about causalities.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Thursday morning the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces and their allied forces of the Russian forces, the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and the Syrian, Iraqi and Palestinian gunmen, continued their targeting to the remaining controlled areas of the “Islamic State” organization in the west of the Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where the organization is besieged, and they are 4 towns and villages- Al-Quriyah, Al-Asharah, Hassarat and al-Siyyal, and the targeting is accompanied by skirmishes between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the members of the “Islamic State” organization, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from reliable sources, that negotiations are carrying out between the regime and the forces accompanied them, with the leadership of the “Islamic State” organization in the last remaining areas in the west of the Euphrates River, to reach an agreement in order to end the presence of the organization in the areas located within the operations of the regime forces in the west of the Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and if the negotiations succeed, then the regime forces will impose the control the entire area extended in the western bank of the Euphrates River, from the Syrian – Iraqi border to the border of Deir Ezzor with Al-Raqqah.

These negotiation that are carrying out between the both parties, came after the regime forces managed to achieve important advancement during the recently weeks and days, which increased the scope of control of the regime forces to more than 52.1% of the area of Deir Ezzor province, as the regime forces impose their control over more than half the province’s area, after they had controlled only 2% of the area of Deir Ezzor province before the 27th of September 2017, in which they presented in the provinces by controlling only a part of Deir Ezzor city and Deir Ezzor Military Airbase, and its vicinity, while the regime forces are pushing the organization to accept the deal, by imposing pressure over them through continuing their targeting the areas where the organization is besieged in the west of the Euphrates River, and the regime forces backed by militiamen loyal to them of Syrian, Iraqi, Iranian, Lebanese and Asian and with the participation of the Russian forces, took the control of the entire area extended on the western banks of the Euphrates River, from the administrative border with Al-Raqqah to Mahakan town in the east of Al-Mayadin, including Farms, towns and cities, the most important are Deir Ezzor city, Al-Mayadin, Bakrus, Al-BoOmar, Al- Muhasan, Miray’iyyah, al-Jufrah, Ayyash, Al-Shmaytiyyah, Al-Tabni, Al-Kharita and other villages on the western banks of the Euphrates River, and Deir Ezzor city and they controlled Al-Bokamal city and the area to Ashayer village, as well as controlling the area extended from Al-Jalaa to Al-Asharah, in addition to their advancement on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River opposite Deir Ezzor city, from Al-Husseiniyah village in the east of the Euphrates River opposite Deir Ezzor city, to Khesham town, and the next advancement will result in losing the organization’s control over the western bank of the Euphrates River completely, along the Euphrates River extended 610 km inside the Syrian territory from the Syrian – Turkish border to the Syrian – Iraqi border, after the banks of the Euphrates River used to be controlled completely by the organization since it entered the Syrian territory until it got out.