"Syria is looking into the possibility of filing an international lawsuit against the United States, due to the fact that they steal Syrian oil," Bouthaina Shaaban, Syrian Presidential Adviser, told Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV in an interview, carried by Iran's Fars news agency.
After a surprise announcement of pulling the US troops out of Syria in October, US President Donald Trump said that the United States would protect Syrian oil fields from ISIS.
President Trump claimed that the US had taken control of the oil in the Middle East, tweeting that "The US has secured the Oil, & the ISIS Fighters are double secured by Kurds & Turkey."
The President did not elaborate on what he meant by "securing the oil," but speculations about the President's statement assume he was referring to the US special forces that have been — and will continue to be — in control of oil and gas fields in Deir Ezzor, Syria's oil region.
President Trump has vowed to protect Syrian oil fields from ISIS, and the United States may leave 500 troops in northeastern Syria and send in battle tanks and other equipment with the purpose to help the Kurds in the area to protect oil fields that used to be controlled by Islamic State during its so-called caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.
In a separate interview, with NBC News, Assad's advisor Shaaban said that the United States had no right to Syria's oil, warning of "popular opposition and operations against the American occupiers of our oil."
The Kurdish SDF forces control most of Syria's oil. Before the war, Syria was producing 387,000 barrels of oil per day, of which 140,000 bpd were exported.
Tsvetana is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing for news outlets such as iNVEZZ and SeeNews.
21st Century Proud Amerikka??? What a sick joke!!!
Amerikka has become nothing but a rabid plagued wanton destroyer of nations around the world. Only contempt, disgust and loathing for the deranged mongrels in DC increasingly reverberate everywhere ... If might is right, then bring it on you despicable nation, because not even your own people can rise up against their successive barbaric mass murdering warmonger governments!-- JFK a ghost of the past, shot like a dog ...
A time will come when Amerikka will reap what she's sown and if the whole planet goes up in smoke when that happens-- rather we thank the one and only Almighty Father for delivering the rest of humanity from the evil US khazarian monster worshippers of moloch-- for they are veritably the synagogue of satan and have long since had the original brave America of yore, by the throat-- throttling every ounce of original moral fibre from her, leaving her a spiritually bankrupt lobotomized hulk.
Yes indeed, this could probably constitute a rant-- but the peoples of America, in general shy away from the naked truth in all its grotesque ugliness-- ignore, that the world in general has every reason to feel nothing but intense hatred and despise for the cowardly Amerikka you've become!-- a people without substance hiding behind their military might ... How sorry ass is that???