Deir Ezzor Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Explosions shook the western desert of Deir Ezzor, reliable sources told SOHR that the explosions were caused by air strikes carried out by warplanes that were not known whether they were Russian, on the desert of Al-Kharitah in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, where SOHR learned that the intensive strikes, which exceeded 10 strikes, targeted a column of vehicles carrying members of the “Islamic State” organization, during passing in Al-Kharitah Desert, that resulted in the death and the injury of dozens of members of the organization, the strikes also caused destruction of vehicles and other damage, the sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the vehicles were heading towards the far western countryside of Deir Ezzor, and towards the area of Madan and the southern banks the Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Al-Raqqah, to support the members of the organization who are fighting the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them in this front.