DAMASCUS (Sputnik) – U.S. forces have evacuated a 156-vehicle strong convoy from the Kharab al-Jir Airport in Syria’s Hasakah province via the illegal al-Waleed border crossing, the Syrian Arab News Agency has reported, citing a local sources on the ground in the nearby town of Rmelan.
“A convoy of 156 vehicles, including 40 refrigerator trucks and more than 50 tankers carrying military equipment, containers, cannons, and a number of Hummers, some of them carrying huge devices, came out into Iraq,” one source said.
The source added that the convoy was accompanied by 25 armored escorts.
SANA’s sources did not elaborate on the nature of these “huge devices”, but did say that the U.S. occupation forces periodically remove defective weapons and vehicles to Iraq, occasionally replacing them with new ones. The refrigerated trucks are said to be filled with food, medicine and other logistical materials to support U.S. troops in the country when they come back from Iraq.
Last month, sources told the news agency that U.S. troops and their so-called Kurdish Democratic Forces militia allies snuck a 40-truck convoy loaded with Syrian wheat out of the country, and, separately, removed a convoy containing 36 defective military vehicles to Iraq.
The U.S. has justified its illegal military presence in eastern Syria by stating that its troops are there to prevent a resurgence of Daesh terrorist group. Damascus has accused Washington of deliberately waging an economic war by controlling 90 percent of Syria’s oil resources and its best agricultural lands, while sanctioning the country and preventing the import of everything from medicines and food to emergency energy supplies.
Syrian authorities have nevertheless expressed confidence that Damascus will sooner or later restore control over all of its occupied territories, and have called on the Kurdish militants who befriended the U.S. to realize that Washington will sooner or later abandon them.