US continues military buildup in Syria despite declared intent to slash troops
A group of American troops, along with military and logistical equipment, have arrived in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah despite the US administration's claims of intent to reduce military presence in the Arab country.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Tuesday that a US cargo plane carrying soldiers as well as military and logistical supplies had landed in Kharab al-Jir airbase in Rmelan countryside in northern Hasakah.
SOHR sources reported in late September that 25 trucks of the so-called international coalition had been brought from Iraq’s Kurdistan region to Qasrik base in the Hasakah countryside through al-Waleed border crossing.
The sources said the trucks carried military and logistical equipment to reinforce bases of the coalition in northeastern Syria.
The deployment of US military convoys on Syrian soil comes despite recent announcements by US officials indicating that Washington intends to scale down its military presence in Syria to a single base.
The US military has about 2,000 troops in Syria across several bases, mostly in the northeast.
Since 2014, Washington has deployed its forces and equipment in northeastern Syria with no authorization from the Arab country’s former government. The Pentagon claims that the deployment is aimed at preventing the oilfields in the area from falling into the hands of Daesh remnants.
Over the past years, multiple footage has emerged showing the US occupation forces using tankers to smuggle Syrian crude oil from the country’s northern provinces to their bases in northern Iraq, as part of Washington’s systematic plundering of Syria’s basic commodities.
US President Donald Trump has also admitted on several occasions that American forces were in the Arab country for its oil wealth.
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