SDF restricts motorcycle use during Eid on security grounds

The SDF have imposed restrictions on motorcycle traffic in Deir ez-Zor during the Eid holiday because of security concerns, according to a conflict monitor.

Use of motorcycles will be restricted from 6am on June 13 through to the end of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, for “security reasons,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The Kurdish-led force made the move after several attacks against their forces by ISIS in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province.

Three SDF soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on Sunday when a man on a motorcycle blew himself up at a checkpoint. Several others, including civilians, were injured.

Earlier, an IED attached to a motorcycle killed two members of the SDF.

Another three SDF were killed when eight persons on four motorcycles attacked a checkpoint.

All the attacks were believed to have been carried out by ISIS.

The SDF, in coordination with the US-led global coalition against ISIS and Iraqi security forces, is fighting to defeat ISIS in two remaining pockets in eastern Deir ez-Zor. They launched a major campaign against ISIS in the al-Dashisha area of Hasaka province earlier this month.

Located on the border with Iraq, al-Dashisha is a strategic location.

After the first week of the campaign, the SDF said on Monday they had advanced nine kilometres on the eastern axis and 13 kilometres on the western front.

Source: SDF restricts motorcycle use during Eid on security grounds: mon