Reports revealed that In order to transport the stolen crude oil from the Hasakah province in northeastern Syria to bases in neighboring Iraq where American forces and trainers are stationed, the US military is said to have used dozens of tanker trucks.
According to local sources in al-Ya’rubiyah town and the official news agency of Syria, SANA, a convoy of 40 tankers carrying oil from Syria’s energy-rich Jazira district and Eastern Region left Syria on Thursday for Iraqi territory through the unauthorized Mahmoudiya border crossing.
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Following that, a second convoy carrying damaged armored military vehicles with nine tankers and several flatbed trucks left Syrian territory for Iraq, according to the report.
According to local sources, the second convoy was escorted by six armored vehicles from the US occupation forces until it arrived at the border crossing.
According to the Pentagon, the deployment of US military personnel and equipment in northeastern Syria is intended to stop the terrorist group Daesh from gaining control of the region’s oilfields.
The deployment, according to Damascus, is intended to pillage the nation’s abundant mineral resources.
Donald Trump, a former US president, acknowledged that American forces were in the Arab nation for its oil on multiple occasions.
The presence of US military forces in Syria, according to Konstantin Kosachev, deputy chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Parliament, is unjustified legally and constitutes a flagrant occupation of the territory of a UN member state.
The senior Russian lawmaker told SANA in an exclusive interview with SANA in Moscow on Thursday that “Americans have expropriated Syrian lands and are plundering the country’s natural wealth for the sake of their own military, political, and commercial objectives.”
He continued by criticizing the UN’s stances on Syria, claiming that while the international organization rushes to hold talks about the situation in the war-torn Arab country, it fails to address Washington’s interference in other nation’s internal affairs.
Kosachev argued that the UN does not fulfill its obligations and does not make a significant effort to uphold peace and security worldwide, or at least in Syria.
