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    The Cradle: Washington continues its oil looting operations across Syria Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on November 15, 2022, 11:44 pm

    Lede: Just a day earlier, the US had stolen large quantities of oil and wheat from different areas in Syria

    14 November 2022

    (quote)
    On 14 November, US occupation troops in Syria looted a new batch of the
    country's oil from the al-Jazira region, in coordination with their Kurdish
    proxy militia, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

    "The American occupation forces took out a new batch of stolen Syrian oil, in 76
    tankers, to their bases in northern Iraq, through the illegal Mahmudiyah
    crossing," local sources told Syrian media.

    Just one day before, US forces also looted large quantities of wheat and oil
    from different areas of the country and transported them into Iraq, using 94
    trucks.

    The US occupation in Syria has been consistently plundering the country's
    natural resources, namely its oil. Recently, there has been a surge in
    Washington's oil looting operations in Syria, given the ongoing energy crisis,
    and the recent OPEC+ production cuts, which left the west in a state of
    desperation.

    An exclusive investigation by The Cradle details the process of the oil
    smuggling operation by US forces and the use of several illegal border crossings
    leading to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR).

    According to the Syrian Oil Ministry, US forces have stolen more than 80 percent
    of the country's daily oil output, amounting to around "66,000 barrels of oil
    every single day."

    In late August, Damascus reported that its oil and gas sectors have incurred
    losses of up to $107 billion as a result US-sponsored war which began in 2011.

    On 4 November, the Damascus-based Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that
    soldiers and officers of a Syrian army checkpoint managed to stop a US military
    convoy, forcing it to retreat to their illegal bases. This is something that has
    happened several times.

    There has also been a recent surge in dissatisfaction with the US and its
    Kurdish allies among Syria's Arab tribes.

    Despite the growing discontent, however, the US has recently expressed that it
    has no plans either to withdraw from Syria or to end its draconian sanction
    policy against Damascus.
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    -- https://thecradle.co/Article/news/18311

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