US sneaks 156-vehicle convoy out of its illegal Syria base

US occupation forces in Syria have reportedly sneaked out of its illegal military base in Kharab al-Jir Airport in the northeastern city of Hasaka with nearly 160 heavy vehicles and military hardware, taking them into northern Iraq.

“A convoy of 156 vehicles, including 40 refrigerating cars and more than 50 tankers carrying military equipment, containers, cannons, and a number of Hummers, some of which carry huge devices,” were taken into Iraq through the illegal al-Waleed Border Crossing, Syria’s official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported Friday, citing “local sources from the [nearby] countryside of Rmelan.”

The report further cited its sources as noting that the trucks were accompanied by 25 military armored vehicles belonging to the US occupation forces to secure their safe passage across the border.

The sources did not elaborate on the nature of the “huge devices,” but reiterated that American occupation forces periodically transfer defective weapons and vehicles into Iraq, occasionally replacing them with new ones.

The refrigerated trucks are believed to be filled with food, medicine and other logistical materials while in Iraq to support the occupying US forces based in the war-ravaged Arab nation.

Last month, according to SANA’s sources, the American troops and their Kurdish mercenaries, referred to as ‘Syrian Democratic Forces' or SDF, transferred a 40-truck convoy loaded with stolen Syrian wheat out of the country, and, separately, removed a convoy containing 36 defective military vehicles to Iraq.

The US has tried to justify its illegal military presence in eastern Syria by persistently claiming that its troops are there to prevent a resurgence of the notorious Daesh terrorists, widely believed to have been trained and supplied by American forces and a despotic Arab regime allied with Washington.

Damascus, meanwhile, has repeatedly blamed Washington for deliberately waging an economic war on Syria by controlling 90 percent of the country’s oil resources and its finest agricultural lands, while imposing brutal sanctions on the country and preventing the import of everything from medicines and food to emergency energy supplies.

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