In addition, according to SANA news agency, a convoy of 27 trucks from Iraq into Syria brought materials and equipment needed to set up US bases in the Rumailan area
US forces have ferried more than 40 truckloads of wheat and oil from northeastern Syria to Iraq. This was reported by the Syrian news agency SANA on Sunday.
According to it, US forces “transported 45 trucks of wheat and petrol tankers of oil from the Rumeilan area in the Hasakeh province into Iraqi territory through the al-Walid border crossing.” A day earlier, the agency points out, the Americans had transported 37 tankers of oil produced in northeastern Syria into Iraq.
In the opposite direction, from Iraq to Syria, a convoy of 27 trucks brought materials and equipment needed to set up US bases in Syria’s northeastern provinces to the Rumailan area in the last few hours.
Most of the eastern and northeastern provinces of Hasakah, Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa are now controlled by the US-backed Kurdish Democratic Syrian Forces (SDF). Since 2015, the US command has established nine military bases in the area. Four of them are near oil fields in Deir ez-Zor and five others are in the neighbouring province of Hasakeh.
The Syrian authorities view the US military presence as an illegal occupation, which is accompanied by the plundering of natural wealth belonging to the Syrian people.