The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Clashes east of Euphrates continue violently between SDF and ISIS in an attempt to end the existence of ISIS completely in the area

Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the clashes continue between the Syria Democratic Forces against the “Islamic State” organization, in places within the last enclave of the “Islamic State” organization east of Euphrates River, in a continuous attacks by the Syria Democratic Forces in order to put an end to the presence of the Organization there, which is taking its last breath, while the clashes are accompanied by continuous rocket shelling targeting the enclave of the “Islamic State” organization, and the Syrian Observatory published during the past hours that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored continued clashes at violent pace, between the Syria Democratic Forces against members of the “Islamic State” organization, in areas in the outskirts of the enclave that is still under the control of the organization which lives its last days, after the violent attacks and the advancements achieved by the SDF, in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, where the SOHR monitored that the SDF managed to achieve advancement in positions and points in the organization’s enclave, as a part of process of clamping down on the organization even more, where more than 500 of ISIS members have fled since the US decision to withdraw its forces from the Syrian territory on the 19th of December 2018, while the clashes are accompanied by exchange of targeting in the clash areas, where the organization is fighting desperately to retain the last areas left under its control in the east of the Euphrates, stretching from the east of Abu Al-Hassan village to the Syrian – Iraqi border.

The Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that it monitored intensive bombing by the International Coalition, since midnight of yesterday until now, targeting the “Islamic State” organization’s-controlled areas, which is living its last days in its last enclave east of Euphrates, and in the last populated areas of towns and villages under its control in Syria, where the Syrian Observatory monitored intensive bombing by the International Coalition warplanes and artillery; on the last enclave of the Organization on the east bank of Euphrates River, which stretches from Abu Hasan village until the Syrian-Iraqi borders, amid clashes between the Syria Democratic Forces against the “Islamic State” Organization, in an attempt to achieve control over the entire enclave in the coming days, while intersected sources suggested for the Syrian Observatory that if the bombing continues in this way along with the exit of more civilians and families of ISIS members, and, members of the “Islamic State” organization hand themselves over; the existence of the Organization may end within days, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received confirmed information about the killing of more members of the Organization due to intense shelling and the clashes of varying violence, amid more advancement for the Syria Democratic Forces in points and areas in ISIS enclave, as the “Islamic State” organization lives its last days in the east of Euphrates area, and the Turkish Forces and their loyal factions are waiting at the border for the process of eliminating the Organization to end, in order for them to begin their military operation against the east of Euphrates area, and the areas that are controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces in Manbij and east of Euphrates.

Reliable sources informed the Syrian Observatory yesterday that reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory that the leadership of the Syria Democratic Forces; intends to terminate the presence of the Organization by the beginning of 2019 in the enclave of East Euphrates, to end the presence of the organization completely as a dominant force in the entire area of east Euphrates, and also to lose its last of its controlled areas within the populated towns and villages, also the sources informed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the Turkish forces are waiting to the process of eliminating the “Islamic State” organization by the Syria Democratic Forces to end, in order to carry out their military operation which aims to control the areas that used to be controlled by the “Islamic State” organization, which in the past years used to be the most influential within the Syrian territory, and spread on the border between Syria and the Turkish side, from the countryside of Ras al-Ayn to the northern countryside of Aleppo, at several hundred kilometers of length, and the determination of Syria Democratic Forces to terminate the presence of the Organization comes with the start of the new year, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that military operation in the east part of Euphrates River in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor, has been escalating since the American decision to withdraw its military forces from the Syrian territory, on the 19th of December 2018, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored since that date until the 26th of the same month, that the Syria Democratic Forces escalated their offensive against the “Islamic State” Organization, which is still losing of its controlled areas and its last enclave in the east Euphrates is getting smaller, and the area is witnessing Turkish threats and a military operation that targets the east Euphrates.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 27th of December 2018, that Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the stop of bombing by the International Coalition warplanes and artillery, at 23:00 on Wednesday night, the 26th of December 2018, as a result of the heavy fog in the “Islamic State” Organization’s enclave area and the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, after violent clashes in the area between the Syria Democratic Forces and members of the “Islamic State” Organization, in the places on the outskirts of the enclave, while the sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the Organization began to collapse rapidly, within its last enclave on the east bank of Euphrates River, amid advancement of the Syria Democratic Forces at its expense, where the Syrian Observatory monored the increase of numbers of people who gotten out of the “Islamic State” Organization’s enclave at the east bank of Euphrates River, where the Syrian Observatory monitored the exit of about 2800 persons mostly children, women, and elderly from the Organization’s enclave, raising the number of people who left the Organization’s enclave in the last 24 hours to 11100, the number of people who have gotten out of the organization’s enclave in December 2018, of different nationalities of Syria, Iraq Russia, Somalia, Philippine and other Asian nationalities, and about 9000 of them have gotten out after the decision of the American president Trump to withdraw from Syria on the 19th of December 2018, also the Syria Democratic Forces managed to arrest more than 500 members of the “Islamic State” Organization, of who infiltrated with the displaced people and fled the “Islamic State” organization’s-controlled areas, the sources confirmed that most of the arrests were carried out after information from the people who got out of the enclave, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has not been able yet to obtain information about the number of the remaining civilians within the “Islamic State” organization’s-controlled areas, where the local sources that managed to escape and exit from the enclave, confirmed that the organization is executing those who its arrests during their escape From the area; on charges of “going out to the land of infidel,” while those who went out have risked their lives in order to reach the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas, while the Syrian Observatory published yesterday night that reliable sources informed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that tens of those who managed in the past 24 hours, to flee the controlled areas of the “Islamic State” organization in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and headed towards the controlled areas of the Syria Democratic Forces, are members of the organization the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 19th of December 2018 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the “Islamic State” organization executed 3 members in its last enclave in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, on charges of “smuggling civilians” out of ISIS enclave towards areas controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces at the east bank of Euphrates River, and in the same context, it turned out that among the people who managed to escape the enclave of the “Islamic State” Organization towards SDF areas; there were members of the Organization who were identified by civilians.