The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

ISIS resurgence | Cells assassinate two SDF members east of Deir ez-Zor

Islamic State cells’ activities continue to escalate in areas controlled by the SDF. SOHR sources say that two gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated with a silencer two SDF members near the carpet factory in Al-Shuhil town in eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

The number of fighters, civilians, oil workers and officials in service agencies who were assassinated in four provinces: Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Al-Hasakah, in addition to Manbij area in northeastern Aleppo province, which is controlled by SDF, increased to 498 persons.

The Syrian Observatory documented the assassination of 166 civilians by armed cells, including 11 children and seven women in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, Al-Hasakah countryside, Raqqa city and countryside and Manbij, in addition to the assassination of 327 fighters of SDF, including local leaders in the same areas, while four members of the International Coalition were killed, dozens of wounded were also reported by SOHR as a result of those assassinations.