Baladi: Coverage
The previous week has witnessed violent clashes, successive attacks and attrition by the Islamic State for the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them.
During the battles the Islamic State organization restored sites it lost during the military operations that preceded its counterattack, also the regime forces are trying to achieve an advancement by carrying out an attack that enable them to control the south of Damascus completely.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented during these attrition battles the killing of 86 members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities and 3 of them were captured and executed, and 57 members at least of the Islamic State organization.
Thus the number raises to at least 203 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, who have been killed since Thursday the 19th of April 2018, including 25 officers and 9 of them were executed.
While it has increased to 159, the number of members of the organization who were killed in the shelling, clashes and targeting that left tens of wounded in the ranks of the both parties, and the death toll is expected to rise because of the continued combat operations and the presence of injured cases in critical situation.
Source: The Syrian Observer for Human Rights