US and Kurdish accomplices continue to steal Syrian oil

American forces stationed in Syria have sent a new convoy of tanker trucks carrying stolen Syrian oil to northern Iraq.

On Wednesday, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) cited local sources from al-Yarubiya area in the countryside of Hasakah Province as saying that a convoy of 130 tanker trucks loaded with Syrian crude oil was transferred to the Iraqi village of Mahmudiyah, which lies to the south of the illegal border crossing of al-Waleed, on Tuesday.

According to the report, the smuggled oil was stolen from Syrian oilfields by the US forces in cooperation with the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The stolen oil was transferred through a passage to Mahmudiyah that had been previously opened by the US forces to pave the way for dozens of trucks carrying smuggled goods belonging to the SDF militants to enter the area of al-Jazeera in northeastern Syria via al-Waleed crossing.

The sources further said that a convoy of 46 trucks carrying logistical equipment belonging to the US forces entered the Syrian territory via al-Waleed crossing, hours after the oil was smuggled to Iraq on Tuesday.

The US military regularly smuggles Syrian oil to Iraq, in violation of international law.

Last week, the US forces brought a convoy made up of 111 vehicles loaded with military equipment and tanker trucks carrying stolen oil from Syria to its bases in northern Iraq.

Damascus has several times insisted that the deployment of US forces is only meant to plunder the country’s resources.

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