(Zaman Al Wasl)- Living conditions in the town of Markada, ISIS last stronghold in Hasaka provicne, have been increasingly deteriorated due to prices hike, blocking roads and fear of targeting trucks coming to ISIS-controlled areas by U.S.-led coalition, activists said.
Activist Malaz al-Yusuf reported that living conditions in Hasaka are getting worse from day to day as a result of increasing food prices and the lack of almost everything in the town’s market due to closing road leading to the it added to fear of targeting delivery vehicles coming from Raqqa to South Hasaka by the US-alliance airplanes.
Al- Yusuf mentioned the high rate of unemployment which means lack of income and inability to buy even food in some time.
The activist detailed that many second hand clothing shops were opened, but still, people do not visit them as they prioritize buying food with their already small amount of money.
The Islamic state is still operating against militias of Democratic Union Party (PYD), as they announced via their official website killing two of the militias members and a machine gun by an attack on their sites near the village of Abo Khashab near Shadadi.
Local sources reported to Zaman al- Wasl that ISIS had repositioned its members in Markada and surrounding in the southern countryside of Hasaka, close to the administrative border of Deir Ezzor province, in preparation for any possible attack by the US-supported militias of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which are led by PYD.
Sources added US-led alliance warplanes flew over areas of Markada, al-Hol and Tal-Hamis without any bombing.
A small explosion of ammunition depot belongs to the Islamic state was exploded mid this month causing many of deaths and injuries among ISIS’s members during preparing a car bomb in the al-Janat southern of Markada town, the last stronghold of ISIS in Hasaka.
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