The regime forces control 4 villages opposite to Deir Ezzor city and about 30 fighters and commanders of Syria Democratic Forces were killed and injured in the attack on the area
Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: several intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the regime forces; and the militiamen loyal to them have been able during their attack on Sunday morning, the 29th of April 2018, to advance and control 4 villages, they are Shaqra, al-Hesan, al-Ji’aa and Al-Jninah, where violent clashes took place between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the Syria Democratic forces, as a result of the attack that was accompanied by exchange of targeting in the clash areas between both parties, where the clashes and the sudden attack have caused casualties in the ranks of both parties, and the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 6 fighters at least, including 2 commanders of the Syria Democratic Forces, and more than 22 others were injured with varying severity, and confirmed information about casualties in the ranks of the regime forces in this attack.
The Syrian Observatory published during the past hours that eastern banks of the Euphrates River opposite to Deir Ezzor city witnessed heavy fire shooting and explosions on the contact lines between the regime forces and their allied militiamen against the SDF in the area, and in the details obtained by the SOHR, Kurdish leading sources confirmed to the SOHR that violent fighting is taking place between both parties in the vicinity of Al-Janina villages and on the contact lines between the organization and the SDF opposite to Deir Ezzor city east of the Euphrates River, while Arab sources in the area controlled by the SDF confirmed that the withdrawal of the SDF from villages in the area in the interest of the regime forces and their allied militiamen and that they restored by the SDF after the people of the area operating under the SDF confronted the advancement of the regime east of the Euphrates opposite to Deir Ezzor city.
the SOHR published on the 8th and 9th of February 2018 that 230 members were killed in the international coalition shelling and bombing east of the Euphrates River including 80 members of the Russian security companies who used to exist in the area with the advancement with the allied militiaman of the regime to the field of oil and gas located in the eastern banks of the Euphrates River including a son of Nawaf Al-Bashir who leads Al-Baqer battalion.