المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Factions of Daraa countryside capture about 20 “ISIS members” during their attempt to reach Yarmouk Basin coming from Damascus

Daraa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: areas in Yarmouk Basin in the western countryside of Daraa witnessed exchange of targeting, with skirmishes between Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid –which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” organization– against fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions, where these renewed skirmishes and targeting in the area came after the factions managed to capture about 20 people during the last night, the factions said that they were members from the “Islamic State” organization south of the capital Damascus, and that they managed to infiltrate the eastern countryside of Daraa, attempting to reach the western countryside of the province, where the areas controlled by Jaysh Khalid ibn al-Walid are, where it controls about 275 km of the western countryside of Daraa on the border with the occupied Syrian Golan.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored 4 days ago the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities; finishing the sweep operations in Yarmouk Camp -the capital of the Palestinian dispersion- and al-Tadamon neighbourhood, imposing their full control over the south of Damascus after the withdrawal of members of the “Islamic State” organization and their families, according to a secret agreement that took place between the regime and organization, where about 1600 members of the “Islamic State” organization have gotten out of Yarmouk Camp and al-Tadamon towards the Syrian Desert under a full Russian supervision, and with this control, the regime forces and their allies have recovered Damascus province and its countryside (Rif Dimashq) completely, except for al-Tanf area which is under the control of the International Coalition Forces at the Syrian – Iraqi border.

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