Americans continue to export Syrian oil to neighboring Iraq. As reported by the Syrian news agency SANA, over the past day, the US military sent two convoys of vehicles with stolen oil across the border.
According to the news agency, referring to the local population, over the past day, two columns left the American military base Harab al-Jir in the province of Hasakah, total number in 70 pieces of equipment.
first, including 26 pieces of equipment, including oil tankers, passed through the checkpoint al-Walid, controlled by the Kurds, to Iraqi territory. The second column followed her. 44 pieces of equipment, it also contained oil tanks, as well as trucks and refrigerators. Destination of oil in Iraqi territory not reported.
Columns with military and construction equipment and building materials go in the opposite direction from Iraq to Syria. Earlier, the Syrian media reported on the arrival in Syria from Iraq of several convoys with materials for the construction of a new American base in the province of Hasakah. As part of the convoy arrived 37 trucks with weapons and ammunition, and 11 trailers with covered military equipment. The convoy was guarded by armored vehicles and accompanied by fighters from the Kurdish self-defense units..
The United States continues to control part of the territory in northeast Syria, where oil and gas fields are located and are not going to leave from there. The protection of deposits together with the Americans is carried out by Kurdish detachments from the alliance “Syrian democratic forces” (SDS).
