DAMASCUS (Dispatches) -- The U.S. military has used dozens of tanker trucks to smuggle crude oil from Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah to bases in neighboring Iraq, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported Saturday. A convoy of 23 tankers, laden with oil from the energy-rich Jazira region, left Syria through the illegal Mahmoudiya border crossing on Saturday, and headed towards Iraqi territories, it said. Another 34 U.S. military tankers, loaded with Syrian crude oil, rumbled through Al-Waleed border crossing of Al-Ya’rubiyah region in separate convoys, and entered the Iraqi territories.