US occupation continues to loot Syrian oil

HASAKA, July 31 (YPA) – The US occupation continued to loot crude oil and crops from the country’s northeastern province of Hasaka to bases in neighboring Iraq, amid Washington’s attempts to further plunder natural resources in war-ravaged Syria, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported, citing local sources in al-Yarubiyah town.

According to the sources, a convoy of 45 tankers, loaded with stolen oil, left Syria through the illegal Mahmoudiya border crossing on Sunday, and headed toward Iraqi territories.

The sources added that another convoy of US occupation forces, consisting of 50 military vehicles and refrigerator trucks, rumbled through al-Waleed border crossing hours later, and entered Iraqi territories.

The convoy reportedly included a shipment of agricultural crops from grain silos in al-Yarubiyah.

The US military trucks and tankers frequently carry tons of grain and crude oil from the northeastern Syrian province of Hasaka to the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq as part of Washington’s systematic smuggling of basic commodities out of Syria.

E.M