US military convoy in Syria. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 14The US military removed 89 oil tanks from Syria to Iraq, the Syrian state agency SANA reports, citing sources. 89 tankers left for Iraq through the illegal Mahmudiyya border crossing. in the north and northeast of Syria in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor, Al-Hasek and Raqqa, where the largest oil and gas fields in Syria are located. Official Damascus has repeatedly called the presence of the US military on its territory occupation and state piracy with the aim of outright theft of oil.
