Northeastern Syria has witnessed heightened security and military escalation over the past hours, marked by a series of attacks targeting military positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), alongside intensive troop movements and reinforcements along contact lines.
Enab Baladi’s correspondent in Deir Ezzor reported today, Tuesday 13 January, that several SDF positions were attacked in the eastern countryside. In the town of Abu Hamam (eastern Deir Ezzor countryside, along the Euphrates River), unidentified gunmen attacked a military point using RPG rounds and automatic weapons.
At the same time, another SDF position near the Euphrates Riverbank in the town of al-Shaafah (eastern Deir Ezzor countryside) was targeted with automatic weapons. No information has been reported on casualties, and the SDF had not announced any losses among its forces at the time of writing.
On 11 January, Arab tribal fighters had carried out coordinated attacks on SDF positions along the eastern bank of the Euphrates River in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside. The attacks targeted military points and strategic checkpoints.
A tribal leader known as “Abu Bashar” told Enab Baladi at the time that the attacks marked an “announcement of the launch of the liberation operation,” accompanied by a general mobilization of fighters across the Jazira region.
According to the tribal leader, the escalation stems from continued SDF raids and arrests carried out under the pretext of pursuing wanted individuals or Islamic State cells, operations that often face local opposition.
SDF accuses the government
The SDF said on its official website that gunmen affiliated with “Damascus government factions,” as it described them, attacked its positions in Abu Hamam from the opposite side of the Euphrates River using automatic weapons, adding that no injuries were reported among its forces.
However, local sources told Enab Baladi that the attack involved two RPG rounds fired from inside Abu Hamam.
Enab Baladi’s correspondent also noted heavy SDF military movements in the town of al-Basira (eastern Deir Ezzor countryside), where armored vehicles and four-wheel-drive cars equipped with 23 mm anti-aircraft guns and 57 mm cannons were deployed along the riverbank.
The correspondent added that SDF forces transferred combat units and redeployed them along the axis of al-Kubar town (western Deir Ezzor countryside) and the Khusham area (eastern Deir Ezzor countryside), in a move aimed at bolstering defenses in these strategic areas.
Meanwhile, Syria’s state news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying that Syrian army forces repelled two infiltration attempts by SDF groups on the al-Salibi and al-Mashrafa fronts in the northern Raqqa countryside at dawn on Tuesday 13 January.
Tension along contact lines
The banks of the Euphrates River in the Deir Ezzor countryside have seen mounting field escalation over recent days, including intensive SDF military movements accompanied by what were described as “warning shots.” These steps reflect ongoing security tension along the contact lines separating areas controlled by the SDF and the Syrian government.
These developments coincided with recent clashes between the two sides in the Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods of northern Aleppo city, and with the Syrian army’s entry into Ashrafieh on 8 January.
In contrast, a military source within the Syrian government said that firing live ammunition into the air without direct clashes reflects a state of “security anxiety” following the recent events in Aleppo.
The source added that government forces did not remain idle in their areas of control, noting that relevant army, security, and intelligence units raised their combat readiness and placed monitoring points on maximum alert to detect any attempt to cross what he described as the river’s “red lines.”
On Sunday 11 January, the last SDF fighters left the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo aboard buses heading toward eastern Syria, leaving Aleppo free of SDF presence.
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