Clashes and exchange of shelling are still taking places between members of the “Islamic State” organization against members of the Iraqi Movement of Al- Nujabaa of Syrian, Lebanese, Iranian and Afghani nationalities and the regime forces in the Syrian desert several kilometers away from the Syrian – Iraqi borders, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that al-Nujabaa Movement and militiamen loyal to the regime after they managed to control the areas of al-Wa’er dam, al-Wa’er valley and Ard al-Washwash and several other positions within the areas controlled by the “Islamic State” organization, they have managed to enter the administrative border of Deir Ezzor province from its southeastern countryside near the Iraqi border.

This strategic progress allows the regime forces to expand their controlled areas on the Syrian-Iraqi border, where they controlled about 85 kilometers at the border, and they are about 12 km from the ” T2 ” station in the south-east of Deir Ezzor. This progress is a part of the regime forces’ efforts to force the “Islamic State” organization to withdraw from the largest area of the desert and the Syrian territory, which extends from Sabkhat Jabboul in the southeastern countryside of Aleppo, passing through the eastern countryside of Hama and the southern and southwestern countryside of al-Raqqa to al-Sokhna and its desert and the Syrian desert. This progress comes two weeks after the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of non-Syrian nationalities managed to reach the Iraqi border from the eastern desert of Palmyra.