The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After bringing great military reinforcements by the regime forces…Al-Suwaidaa desert witnesses clashes and violent shelling

Al-Suwaidaa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored violent clashes since today evening, Sunday the 5th of August 2018, in areas in both eastern and north-eastern deserts of Al-Suwaidaa, between members of the “Islamic State” organization against the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, accompanied by violent shelling by the regime forces, where these shelling and clashes come as a part of a military operation by the regime forces to take the control of more areas controlled by the organization and to end the presence of the organization in the area, where the regime forces have brought large military reinforcements to both eastern and north-eastern countryside of Al-Suwaidaa, and in the same context, the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that negotiations continue between representatives of the regime and the “Islamic State” organization regarding the file of people abducted by ISIS during its attacks on al-Suwaidaa city and its eastern and northeastern countryside on the 25th of July 2018, where the Syrian Observatory learned that the negotiations were resumed between both parties to reaching a final agreement, after rejecting the conditions of the organization, which provided for the transfer of its members from Yarmouk Basin to al-Suwaidaa Desert in exchange for the release about 30 women, children, and boys who had been kidnapped from al-Suwaidaa province, and the Syrian Observatory learned that the negotiation is now revolve around 2 key items, namely, the handover of the kidnapped people by ISIS in exchange for handing over the bodies and wounded of the Organization by the gunmen of al-Suwaidaa who have been with them after the attacks of the bloody Wednesday, and these negotiations came in conjunction with the arrival of more military reinforcements to the villages located on the first line adjacent to the eastern and northeastern countryside of al-Suwaidaa, after the arrival and deployment of reinforcements over the past 48 hours.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published today morning, Sunday, the 5th of August 2018 that the “Islamic State” organization executed a boy of who were kidnapped by ISIS during the attacks on al-Suwaidaa and its eastern an northeastern countryside on Wednesday, the 25th of July 2018, and in the details Obtained by the Syrian Observatory: the organization executed a 19-year-old boy from al-Shabaki village, who was among more than 30 children, teenagers, and women abducted by ISIS during its attacks on the area, where the execution took place on Thursday the 2nd of August 2018, and the Syrian Observatory learned that this execution is the first execution against al-Suwaidaa abductees, and came after the fail of negotiations between the “Islamic State” organization and the regime forces on transferring ISIS fighters to the Syrian desert from southwest of Daraa, in addition to the execution of more than 50 citizens and fighters of Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the organization in the southwestern countryside of Daraa, and the Syrian Observatory fears that the “Islamic State” organization may execute the abducted women of al-Suwaidaa Province; as a result of stripping the women by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them in the southwestern countryside of Daraa and stealing their gold.