ISIS loses a number of its fighters in an attack targeted the regime forces and their allies in the west of the Euphrates River
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the death of 6 members at least of the “Islamic State” organization, in the shelling and clashes which took place between members of the organization against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, in areas in both deserts of Al-Mayadin and Al-Boleel in the west of the Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where the SOHR monitored that the organization carried out two simultaneous attacks, which targeted Al-Mayadin Desert and Al-Boleel Desert, controlled by the regime forces and their allies, in the west of the Euphrates River, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where violent clashes are taking place between the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the members of the “Islamic State” organization, amid exchange of targeting in the clash areas.
And the SOHR published on the 21st of May 2018, that it 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.