US troops conduct new oil theft operation in northeast Syria
Syria has incurred losses of over $100 billion in its oil and gas sector since the start of the western-backed war
- April 12 2023The US occupation army transported a new batch of stolen Syrian oil to their bases in Iraq on 11 April, escorting at least 32 fuel tankers via the illegal Al-Walid border crossing in northeast Syria.
According to locals in the Al-Yarubiya countryside who spoke with SANA, the 77-vehicle convoy came from the direction of oil-rich Hasakah.
The latest oil theft operation took place just hours after the US army base in Deir Ezzor’s Conoco gas field came under rocket fire as part of a recent surge in attacks attributed to groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In August of last year, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the losses incurred by the country’s oil and gas sector due to Washington’s illegal occupation amounted to $107 billion since 2011.
According to an investigation by The Cradle, dozens of tankers pass through illegal crossings between Iraq and Syria every week in convoys accompanied by US warplanes or helicopters.
The convoys travel through areas outside the authority of the central state, usually starting from the Jazira region and passing through Hasakah. The vehicles stop for several hours before heading for the Al-Harir military site in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR)....
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US troops conduct new oil theft operation in northeast Syria
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