Tag Archives: Smuggling Oil Out of Syria

by the Iraq Correspondent of The Cradle, September 28, 2022 Although the porous Iraqi-Syrian border stretches for over 600 kilometers, about half of it – in practice – is not subject to the authority of either state. Over the years, this lack of comprehensive border control has given rise to …

News from The Cradle, July 23, 2022 The US army and its proxy Kurdish militia control the resource-rich northeast region, stealing Syrian oil under the pretext of preventing ISIS from taking control of the vast oil fields On 23 July, US occupation troops smuggled a new batch of stolen Syrian …