DAMASCUS (SANA) – U.S. forces on Sunday looted and smuggled more Syrian resources to their bases in Iraqi territory, taking out a load of about 95 tankers of oil from al-Jazeera fields during the past 24 hours.
Local sources in al-Yaarubiyah, to the northeastern side of the country, said that the U.S. occupation forces brought out a convoy of vehicles to Iraqi territory via the illegal Mahmoudiyah crossing, including 40 tankers loaded with Syrian oil stolen from al-Jazeera fields.
The sources added that the occupation troops brought out a convoy of 55 tankers loaded with stolen oil and transported it through the illegitimate al- Mahmoudiyah crossing.
The U.S. military has for long stationed its forces and equipment in northeastern Syria, with the Pentagon claiming that the deployment is aimed at preventing the oilfields in the area from falling into the hands of Daesh terrorists.
Damascus, however, maintains the deployment is meant to plunder the country’s natural resources. Former U.S. president Donald Trump admitted on several occasions that American forces were in the Arab country for its oil wealth.
Several countries, including Russia and China, have condemned U.S. actions in plundering the Syrian resources and have called on Washington to stop its continued looting of the war-torn country’s natural resources.
In another development in the country on Sunday, Daesh terrorist group killed 6 Syrian citizens in the desert of al-Shula in the southern countryside of Dayr al-Zawr.
Six shepherds were killed and two others were injured in the attack by terrorists in the al-Shula area in the southern countryside.
While the war and crisis in Syria has entered its 13th year, many terrorist groups supported by the Western-Zionist front, including Daesh, have been defeated by the resistance fighters and the Syrian army, but their Western-Zionist leaders still seek to continue the crisis in Syria.