Fears over the lives of abductees increase as the regime forces advance more at the expense of ISIS in the Syrian Desert
Al-Suwaidaa Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: fears increase in al-Suwaidaa Province for the lives of their kidnapped people, after the “Islamic State” Organization executed a young male out of about 30 children, girls, and woman abducted on the 25th of July 2018, coincided with military operation started by the regime forces on Sunday the 5th of August 2018 against the “Islamic State” Organization east and northeast of al-Suwaidaa, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of violent clashes between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against members of the “Islamic State” organization in areas near the first line of populated villages, where the regime forces are trying to intensify their shelling within the first phase of the battels of the hills, through which the regime forces aim to control as many hills as possible, and to secure their surroundings extensively and to facilitate the advancement process to their forces through monitoring wider areas, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime forces achieving more advancement on the three areas they have been carrying out this attacks on.
These clashes are accompanied by successive raids carried out by warplanes, in conjunction with their continuous flight over the area, and carrying out from time to time strikes against positions of ISIS and places of its presence, while the Syrian Observatory monitoring the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them to arresting a man and a woman along with a child was with them, in al-Mashnaf area near al-Rami village where they were investigated, and sources reported that the woman was a family member of one of the local leader in the organization in the Desert of al-Suwaidaa, and the Syrian Observatory published in the past few hours that the clashes continue in areas east and northeast of al-Suwaidaa desert, between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the “Islamic State” organization, within the military operation that was started by the regime forces in the area on the evening of the 5th of August 2018 after bringing massive military reinforcements, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday 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.