The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The regime forces and gunmen of east al-Suwaidaa achieve an advancement to fortify the villages that were under the bloody attack by ISIS and warplanes

Al-Suwaidaa Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored aerial bombardments carried out by warplanes after midnight of yesterday on areas controlled by the “Islamic State” organization in the eastern Desert al-Suwaidaa East, but no information about casualties until the moment, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has also monitored advancement by the regime forces and local gunmen villages in the eastern countryside of al-Suwaidaa, in order to fortify them in case of any possible attack by the “Islamic State” organization on the area, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that Discontent is growing in al-Suwaidaa, as the regime continues to fail the families of the kidnapped citizens, where the regime and its Russian ally didn’t care for the fate of those people who were abducted by the “Islamic State” organization, where after hours of calm that prevailed on Sunday, the 29th of July in Yarmouk Basin area in the countryside of Daraa in which the “Islamic State” organization required the stop of military operation against it in exchange for the survival of the abductees; and that the failure to do so will result in executing them, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the return of shelling to Yarmouk Basin, in conjunction with renewed aerial and ground targeting for the eastern countryside of al-Suwaidaa, which increased the resentment and discontent against regime’s steps that will have bad consequences; as the abductees are present in the grip of the Organization.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the warplanes  targeted areas east of area al-Radima area and other areas of the eastern countryside of al-Suwaidaa, which are controlled by the “Islamic State” organization, in an escalation that sparked more apprehension about the fate of abductees and about the reaction of the organization, while the Syrian Observatory published this morning that the area of Yarmouk Basin in the western countryside of Daraa has been witnessing calm since dawn on Sunday, the 29th of July 2018, where part of it are controlled by Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” organization, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored since the midnight of yesterday until dawn of today clashes of varying violence, between the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them against Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” organization in the vicinity of Abdeen village, amid advancement for the regime forces in parts of the village, in conjunction with dropping barrel bombs by helicopters on places in the area, amid targeting by the regime forces using artillery shells of the same areas.

This sudden calm which have begun dawn of today until now, is the result of threats by ISIS against the regime through one of the kidnapped women from the countryside of al-Suwaidaa, where one of the kidnapped women from the villages in the countryside of al-Suwaidaa appeared in a video broadcasted by ISIS, where Mrs. Souad Adib Abu Ammar in the video asked the Syrian regime president Bashar al-Assad and the media millionaire Kinanah Hwyja to carry out the terms of the “Islamic State” organization, and release prisoners and detainees belong to or connected to the organization, and stop the military operation in Yarmouk basin in the western countryside of Daraa, also in the video footage the woman warned that the organization will execute them if these conditions were not implemented.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored this video raising resentment in the countryside of al-Suwaidaa, where anger and resentment prevail along with cautious anticipation for regime authorities’ reaction to the organization’s conditions, through which the organization set the regime in a deadlock, after ISIS linked the implementation of its conditions to the lives of the abductees females, while the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that al-Suwaidaa province is witnessing widespread resentment due to the abductions of citizens and female citizens from the countryside al-Suwaidaa by the “Islamic State” organization, and this resentment is accompanied by the rise of fears for the lives of people who were abducted from the attacked villages, including a large number of female citizens, who are feared to be executed by ISIS, also Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 255 persons who were killed as a result of the attacks by the “Islamic State” organization on Al-Suwaidaa city and its eastern and north-eastern countryside on Wednesday, they are 142 citizens including 38 women and children, and 113 gunmen most of them are of the people of the countryside of Al-Suwaidaa province, who took up arms to rebel the violent and surprising attack of the “Islamic State” organization, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored that the number of casualties in the ranks of the “Islamic State” organization who were killed in this violent attack on Al-Suwaidaa countryside and Al-Suwaidaa city, reached 63 members including 7 suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the city and in its countryside, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored that Pro-regime gunmen have hanged up a member of the organization, local sources said that he was detained during the arrival of his body in a hospital in Al-Suwaidaa city, where he was executed and his body was hanged up in the city, amid a crowd of tens of citizens in the area.