The Hajin Military Council was able to successfully defuse a bomb hidden in a motorcycle previously left on a school route in the small town of Abu Hammam.

As a result, the Hajin military council managed to prevent a possible massacre. The vehicle bomb, loaded with eight kilograms of TNT.

The region around Hajin is one of the particularly vulnerable areas in the self-governing region of Deir ez-Zor. Secret service cells of the regime, the Iranian state, as well as the armed forces of the regime and the Islamic State are active here to destabilize the region.

As recently as the end of September, there were violent clashes in this area between units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and armed groups loyal to the Assad regime. The SDF reported at the time that several groups, including members of Iranian unofficial fighting groups, had entered the region.