China News Service, October 8. According to a report by the Syrian State News Agency on the 7th, the US military illegally transported oil in Syria again. This time, it was accused of using 50 oil tankers to transport the stolen crude oil to its military base in northern Iraq.
According to reports, the U.S. military has been stealing oil more frequently in Syria recently.
Since August, there have been at least a dozen incidents of U.S. military theft of Syrian oil, and a total of more than 900 oil tankers have been transported to U.S. military bases outside Syria.
The Syrian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources previously issued a statement saying that in the first half of this year, Syria's oil production was about 14.5 million barrels, of which more than 80% were plundered by "the US military and its armed forces."
The ongoing crisis has caused direct and indirect damage to the Syrian oil industry, with losses amounting to $105 billion.
The special adviser to the Syrian President, Busena Shaban, has said that the purpose of the US presence in Syria is to support terrorism and to steal the resources of the country's people.