Damascus, January 10 (Prensa Latina) American soldiers stationed illegally in northeastern Syria captured a new shipment of oil and brought it to their bases in northern Iraq, local activists reported today.
Sources in the far northeastern town of Yarubiyah in northeastern Hasakeh province said a convoy of 50 tankers carrying stolen oil left Syrian territory for Washington's enclaves in Iraq through the illegal Mahmoudia border crossing.
These troops also brought a column of 45 vehicles, containers and tankers through the Al-Walid border crossing.
Before the war, Syria produced more than 380,000 barrels of crude oil per day in 2011, but this number was reduced to just 15,000, which only meets five percent of the country's needs, while the remaining 95 percent is imported, facing enormous difficulties due to the US blockade placed.
The damage to the Syrian oil sector due to looting and sabotage by the United States amounted to $115.2 billion, as the government of this Arab country recently denounced.
He demanded that US officials be held accountable for these thefts, that the illegal presence of US forces in the country be ended, and that the oil and gas fields be returned to the Syrian state.
The Pentagon has at least a dozen bases in Syria, mostly in the oil and gas fields in the northeastern Al-Jazzira region, primarily in Hasakeh, and maintains a base in the Tanef area on the border with Iraq to provide all land communications between to prevent them from these two nations.
Syria has repeatedly denounced that US forces are training and training separatist and extremist militias to further destabilize the country and prolong the war.
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