Rocket shelling targets areas in Deir Ezzor countryside and shelling targets Daraa city
Daraa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: violent explosions rocked Daraa Al-Balad in Daraa city, caused by shelling by the regime forces on areas in Daraa Al-Balad by several artillery shells, without information about injuries, while unidentified gunmen opened fire on the house of the commander of Liwaa Usud Al-Sunnah, in the eastern coutrnyside of Daraa yesterday after the midnight, which caused material damage.
Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: several violent explosions were heard this dawn, Saturday the 3rd of March 2018, caused by several missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, fired from Al-Omar Oilfield controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces, and information about that they fell in Deir Ezzor countryside controlled by the regime forces, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published last night that clashes took place between the Syria Democratic Forces against the gunmen loyal to the regime of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, in the contact areas between them both in the areas of Khasham and Hussainiyah on the eastern banks of Euphrates River, and the clashes were accompanied by exchange of targeting between both parties, while missiles were seen shelling the areal the sources said that its source was the Syria Democratic Forces and the allied forces, and the Syrian Observatory published in the first third of February 2018 that it rose to 68, the number of persons who were killed by bombing by the International Coalition and the explosion of the warehouse in the east of the Euphrates River, they are 45 members and most of them are of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian nationalities from al-Baqir Brigade which belongs to the Sheikh of al-Baggarah Clan, Nawaf al-Bashir, who announced earlier his “reconciliation” with the regime, and he led with his sons groups of his clan to fight alongside the regime, where they were targeted by bombardment of the International Coalition in Marat, Khasham and al-Salhiya opposite of Deir Ezzor city on the eastern banks of Euphrates River, in addition to targeting sites of the regime forces in the vicinity of Khasham town, and vehicles and artilleries of the regime forces, while the other 23 are members of al-Baqir Brigade and of the Russian security companies located in Tabiyah Jazeera, all of them were killed in an explosion of a warehouse of the Russian protection forces, where members of al-Baqir Brigade were trying to get weapons outside of the warehouse then the warehouse which was booby-trapped exploded, which killed 23 members including members of the Russian security companies, who were present in the area to advance with the gunmen loyal to the regime forces to the oil and gas fields on the eastern banks of Euphrates River, including one of the sons of Nawaf al-Bashir who leads al-Baqir Brigade, also the explosion in the warehouse and the strikes that targeted the regime forces and their allies in the east of Euphrates on the 8th and 9th of February 2018, have injured more than 150 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities; and members of the Russian security companies, the sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that Coalition’s bombing and the explosion of the warehouse did not cause casualties of the Russian forces.