On Saturday, a 23-vehicle convoy was noticed transporting oil from Syria’s al-Jazeera oil fields in direction of the unlawful al-Mahmudiya border crossing with Iraq within the al-Yarubiya countryside, whereas a 34-vehicle convoy was seen making its method in direction of Iraq by way of the unlawful al-Walid crossing.
These had been the second smuggling operations this week, with reviews on Monday suggesting that US forces had shipped oil from al-Jazeera’s fields to bases in Iraq.
Syrian officers have repeatedly demanded that American troops and all different overseas forces working within the nation illegally exit instantly, accusing the US of suffocating Syria and stopping the nation from rebuilding after its profitable resistance in opposition to the CIA-backed soiled battle.
Final month’s earthquakes killed over 6,700 Syrians and injured over 14,500 others, inflicting an estimated $5.1 billion in harm, and including to the estimated $400 billion in assets required for reconstruction.
Washington introduced a 180-day exemption to Syria sanctions for catastrophe aid, however dominated out lifting the restrictions fully, and continued its extraction and smuggling of assets from of oil and food-rich areas of the war-torn nation.