[News] US forces loot more Syrian oil

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 US forces loot more Syrian oil

The oil theft and smuggling operation comes two days after a brutal US
attack on Syria and Iraq

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

FEB 4, 2024 - https://thecradle.co/articles/us-forces-loot-more-syrian-oil
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US occupation troops in Syria's northeastern Jazira region looted
<https://sana.sy/?p=2039791> 60 tankers of crude oil and transported it
through an illegal border crossing into its military bases in Iraq, Syrian
state media reported on 4 February.

“The American occupation continued its plundering of Syrian oil wealth,
transferring it from the areas it occupies in the Hasakah countryside to
its bases in Iraqi territory through illegal crossings,” SANA news outlet
reported.

Local sources in the Yarubiyah countryside told SANA’s correspondent that
“an American occupation convoy of 60 tankers loaded with stolen Syrian oil
left Syrian territory, accompanied by an escort from the occupation forces
and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia, through the illegal
Mahmoudiyah crossing towards the occupation bases in northern Iraq.”

US troops in Syria have continued to systematically
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/2345> loot the country’s natural
resources, including oil, wheat, and barley – transferring the plundered
goods to Iraq illegally.

An in-depth investigation by *The Cradle* in 2022 details the process of
the oil smuggling operation by US forces and the use of several illegal
border crossings that lead to the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

According to the exclusive, there are usually no less than 70 to 100
tankers transporting Syrian oil during each journey. The Syrian oil
ministry has incurred billions-worth of losses as a result.

The Kurdish SDF, which faces an ongoing tribal rebellion
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/18364> that began in its areas of control
in August last year, helps Washington oversee the occupation of Syrian
oilfields.

Sunday’s looting operation follows Washington’s brutal attacks
<https://thecradle.co/articles/us-carries-out-major-bombing-in-iraq-syria>
on Syria and Iraq two days earlier. The airstrikes came in response to
Iraqi resistance attacks on US bases in both countries, particularly one on
US military outpost Tower 22 on the Jordanian side of the border with
Syria, which killed three US soldiers.

The US air force carried out strikes on 85 sites in the border regions
connecting Iraq and Syria early on 3 February, killing several.

US Central Command stated its forces struck targets "belonging to the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard and its allies, in Iraq and Syria" using
"long-range bombers launched from the United States."

US and British fighter jets launched yet another joint assault
<https://thecradle.co/articles/new-wave-of-us-uk-strikes-target-yemen> on
Yemen the following day, 4 February, in response to pro-Palestine naval
operations carried out by the Ansarallah movement and the Armed Forces of
the Yemeni government in Sanaa.
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