US troops illegally present in Syria are continuing their actions to plunder this Arab nation’s oil, confirmed local activists quoted by the national news agency SANA.
From the oil fields in northeastern Hasakeh province, a convoy of 53 tankers left Iraq and entered Iraq via the illegal Mahmudia Crossing, Yaroubieh region sources said.
The action was carried out, as on previous occasions, in cooperation and coordination with the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an illegal armed formation funded and sponsored by Washington.
This looting is taking place as the country faces an unprecedented energy crisis caused by acute shortages of petroleum derivatives due to US occupation of lands containing more than 90 percent of hydrocarbon reserves.
Syria was producing more than 380,000 barrels of crude oil per day before the 2011 war, but that number has dropped to just 80,000, 66,000 of which were looted by US troops and the SDF.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry recently announced that losses in the oil sector amounted to 105 billion, while 235 workers in this sector lost their lives, 46 were injured and 112 are missing after kidnappings.