Over the weekend, the Syrian Arab Army’s 104th Airborne Brigade of the Republican Guard – led by Major General Issam Zahreddine – and the Shaytat tribesmen returned to the provincial capital of the Deir Ezzor Governorate after their one month long deployment to Al-Hasakah City in early July.

Following their arrival, the SAA’s 104th Brigade – alongside the Shaytat tribesmen – were given no vacation, as they joined forces with the SAA’s 137th Artillery Brigade of the 17th Reserve Division in order to restart their offensive to capture the strategically located city of Mohassan that sits on the Deir Ezzor-Al-Mayadeen Highway.

The Syrian Armed Forces began their assault on Sunday morning, when the 104th Brigade – in coordination with the Shaytat tribesmen and the National Defense Forces (NDF) – attacked the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) to the south of the Al-Ta’im Oil Fields, capturing approximately four square miles of territory in the process.

In addition to their assault near the Al-Ta’im Oil Fields, the Syrian Armed Forces (primarily the 137th Brigade) cleared the eastern farms in the town of Al-Jafra, killing over 20 enemy combatants from the terrorist group, including “Abu Malek Al-Tounisi” (Tunisian), Mazen ‘Umar Al-Radwan, Noures Khaled Khodor, Walid Yousif Al-Mohammad, Qassem Mohammad Al-Bustani, Zaid Ghassan Al-Hosni, ‘Abdullah ‘Abdel-Rahman Khaldoun, and Mohammad Da’oud Fawzi.