Two sudden attacks by ISIS west of Euphrates raise to 925, the number of casualties of its members and the regime forces and allies since its recovery in the Syrian interior

Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the “Islamic State” organization carrying out 2 surprise attacks, both of which targeted positions of the regime forces in the west of Euphrates River, where the first attack targeted the regime forces and its allies of Syrian and non-Syrian Nationalities in al-Mayadin Desert, and the second attack targeted the regime forces and their allies in al-Quriyah Desert, and after both attacks the violent clashes took place between the regime forces supported by the gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against members of the “Islamic State” organization, in places in al-Mayadin and al-Quriyah since midnight of yesterday, accompanied by firing flares over the locations of the clashes, amid artillery shelling by the regime forces on the “Islamic State” organization’s controlled areas, and in the attack 6 members at least of organization were killed, and at least 4 members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them were also killed, followed by the withdrawal of the organization from clash locations.

And with the fall of more casualties, it rose to 924, the number of casualties of both parties who were documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in the provinces of Damascus, Deir Ezzor, and Homs, where it rose to 557 at least, the number of members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them who were killed during 2 months of clashes in al-Bokamal Desert, the countryside of Deir Ezzor and south of the capital Damascus and the outskirts of east Homs, and about two thirds of them were killed in the capital Damascus, also it rose to 367 at least, the number of members of the “Islamic State” organization who were killed in the same battles, since the recovery of the Organization in the 13th of March 2018, also tens of others of both parties were killed and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, in addition to the presence of missing members and captives in the ranks of the both parties.

It is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has been monitoring since the 13th of March 2018, the start of attacks by the “Islamic State” Organization, which were started by an attack in the capital Damascus, and enabled it to expand in al-Kadam neighbourhood in the southern part of the capital, followed by attacks targeted the 2nd Station, which was also controlled by the Organization south of al-Bokamal, and other attacks in Hmimeh area and al-Mayadin Desert, amid targeting sites of the regime forces and their allies west of Euphrates river in the eastern and southeastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, also these successive attacks have caused significant casualties in the ranks of members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, and as well as the ranks of members of the “Islamic State” Organization, also this violent attack of ISIS comes weeks after the control of the organization declined in the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, within the towns of Abu Al-Hassan, al-Sha’afah, Al-Baghuz, Al-Bo Bdara, and its districts, following the entire end of its presence in the western banks of the Euphrates River, where the SDF managed to control most of the east of the Euphrates except for the aforementioned enclave, where reliable sources confirmed to the SOHR that the organization organized its ranks in the recent stage in order to attempt to expand the organization’s controlled areas at the expense of its rivals in its areas of presence, and the SOHR published few months ago, that although the presence of the organization in the west of the Euphrates River ended on the 6th of December 2017, groups of its fighters meant to confuse the regime and its allies, by carrying out infiltrations and surprising attacks, within Deir Ezzor desert and the vicinity of Hmimeh area in the far of the north-eastern countryside of Homs, in conjunction with the attacks on areas in the eastern desert of Al-Sukhnah and attacks in other areas near the presence of the members of the organization who carry out these attacks in order to emphasize the strength of the organization and express its ability to carry out attacks and initiate them, and to result in the fall of the largest possible number of human losses in the ranks of the regime forces and their allies of non-Syrian nationalities.