Airwars assessment
One person was reported killed in an alleged US-led Coalition and QSD/SDF joint security operation/landing in Ghariba al-Sharqiya in Deir Ezzor, Syria on November 7th, 2020.
Some of the local sources which reported the incident said the person killed was an IDP, and others described him as an ISIS member.
For example, a source told Euphrates Post that “a person was found killed by several bullets near the Khabur River after the SDF withdrew from the village after conducting of the operation. The sources said the person is called Abu Fatima, a displaced from the city of Albu Kamal, east of Deir Ezzor, who has been living with his family in the aforementioned town for four years.”
Euphrates Post later di a follow up for the news saying that the man, Mohia Abdullah Al-Dibs, aka Abu Fatima, is one of ISIS security people and an assistant of Saddam Al-Jamal in what was called the Islamic state.”
Khabour page posted identifying the killed person as an IDP.
No further information is available.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
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Reports of the incident mention the banks of the River Khabour (نهر الخابور), located west of the village of Ghariba Al Sharqiya ( غريبة الشرقية). Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further. The generic coordinates for Ghariba Al Sharqiya are: 35.622001, 40.770607.