Use of motorcycles will be restricted from 6am on June 13 through to the end of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, for “security reasons,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The Kurdish-led force made the move after several attacks against their forces by ISIS in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province.
Three SDF soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on Sunday when a man on a motorcycle blew himself up at a checkpoint. Several others, including civilians, were injured.
Earlier, an IED attached to a motorcycle killed two members of the SDF.
Another three SDF were killed when eight persons on four motorcycles attacked a checkpoint.
All the attacks were believed to have been carried out by ISIS.
The SDF, in coordination with the US-led global coalition against ISIS and Iraqi security forces, is fighting to defeat ISIS in two remaining pockets in eastern Deir ez-Zor. They launched a major campaign against ISIS in the al-Dashisha area of Hasaka province earlier this month.
Located on the border with Iraq, al-Dashisha is a strategic location.
After the first week of the campaign, the SDF said on Monday they had advanced nine kilometres on the eastern axis and 13 kilometres on the western front.
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