BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – The U.S.-backed Kurdish militants sell their U.S.-made weapons in the black market, media reports said.
"The Kurdish fighters are selling the weapons supplied by the U.S. to other militants," the Arabic-language Daily Sabah quoted local sources in northern Syria as saying.
The sources pointed to an agreement reached between Turkey and the U.S. on Kurdish forces' withdrawal from the city of Manbij and other regions West of the Euphrates and surrender of their weapons to the U.S. by the end of 2018, and said that the Kurdish forces are worried that the Turkish army might conduct a new military operation against them in northern Syria if they surrender their weapons.
"Hence, they sell the weapons to other militant groups that operate in the same region," they added.
The U.S. has delivered light and heavy weapons on a large number of trucks to the Kurdish forces in northern Syria on the pretext of fighting the Daesh terrorist group.
Earlier in July, the U.S. army dispatched a new military convoy to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Hasaka province in northern Syria.
Field sources in Hasaka province reported that Washington had sent a large military convoy, consisting of a large number of weapons, ammunition and military equipment to the U.S.-backed SDF forces.
They added that the military equipment was carried on 200 trucks transferred through the border crossing of Simalka at the borders with Iraq to northeastern Hasaka. Another convoy of weapons and military equipment was sent by the U.S. to the SDF in Hasaka of Syria near the borders with Iraq.
The Arabic-language Smart News website affiliated to the militants in Syria reported that a new U.S. military convoy was sent to the SDF in northeastern Hasaka through Simalka passageway at the Iraqi borders with Syria.