On December 18, according to the Syrian state news agency on the 17th local time, sources said that the illegal US military presence in Syria used dozens of tanks and trucks to transport oil and grain smuggled from Syria to Iraq.
Screenshot of the report by the Syrian state news agency.
According to reports, the illegal US military presence in Syria uses 40 oil trucks to transport oil smuggled from Syrian oil fields to Iraqi territory through the Mahmoudiyya crossing.
At the same time, another convoy of 55 trucks smuggling grain (wheat and barley) and several tanks smuggling oil headed for Iraqi territory through the illegal crossing point Al-Walid, the report said.
The report also said that this was "part of a systematic plan to plunder Syria's national wealth by illegally stationing U.S. troops in Syria."
According to foreign media reports, "the United States operates about a dozen illegal military bases in Syria, most of which are concentrated in energy- and food-rich areas east of the Euphrates, which contain about nine-tenths of Syria's oil and gas resources." ”
The report also said that the Syrian authorities demanded that the United States take responsibility for the plundering of the country's wealth and believed that the United States was obliged to compensate for this illegal act.