The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The west of the Euphrates River witnesses the 2nd attack by ISIS in the past 24 hours on positions of the regime forces and their allies

Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: explosions rocked areas in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, caused by shelling which targeted areas in the west of the Euphrates River, and in the south-eastern desert of Deir Ezzor, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored shelling by the regime forces on the abovementioned areas, in conjunction with a new attack by the “Islamic State” organization, where clashes are taking place between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the members of the organization, in areas in the vicinity of the positions of the regime forces which are located in the west of the Euphrates River and Deir Ezzor desert, and no information about casualties was reported yet.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago, that it an attack in the areas where the regime forces and their allies are located west of Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: members of the “Islamic State” organization carried out an attack on the areas of Hasrat and al-Mojawdeh opposite to al-Sha’afah area, where violent clashes took place between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against members of the “Islamic State” organization, in places in Hasrat and al-Mojawdeh areas, amid exchange of attacks between both parties which caused confirmed casualties and injuries in their ranks, and the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the attack began from al-Sha’fa area in the last enclave of ISIS at the east bank of Euphrates River, where ISIS members infiltrated through Euphrates River and then began their offensive, and the Syrian Observatory received on the 2nd of April 2014 information from several reliable sources that obtained information on the 2nd of April 2014, from a number of reliable sources, reporting that about 400 fighter of the “Islamic State” organization of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, have crossed from the enclave east Euphrates -which is surrounded by the Syria Democratic Forces who are supported by the International Coalition- to the west of Euphrates River in the form of groups, where they crossed through al-Shafa area, after intense shelling by the “Islamic State” Organization on areas controlled by the regime and its loyal gunmen west of Euphrates River.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published 2 days ago that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the death of at least 8 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, as a result of an ambush carried out by members of the “Islamic State” organization in the southeastern desert of al-Bokamal city in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and the death toll is expected to rise because some of them are in critical situation, and information about other casualties, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published at the end of June 2018 that it monitored the eruption of violent clashes between the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against members of the “Islamic State” Organization, in the eastern desert of Deir Ezzor countryside west of Euphrates River, as a result of an attack by ISIS on al-Dwayr Desert which is less than 40 km to the west of al-Bokamal city, where the organization seeks through these attacks to disperse the regime forces and their allies, while the clashes were accompanied by exchange of targeting between both parties, amid confirmed information about casualties of both parties in the clashes, amid intense shelling by the regime forces on areas in the desert of Deir Ezzor.