US troops have removed hundreds of Syrian oil tanks from areas in northeastern Syria to neighboring Iraq, SANA reported, citing local sources.

According to the agency, the American occupying forces sent a convoy of 300 tanks with oil stolen from Syrian fields into Iraq this morning. It is alleged that in recent months, the Syrian-Iraqi border has been crossed by dozens of columns with oil produced in the Syrian province of Al-Hasakah.

Most of the Syrian provinces of Haseke, Ar-Raqqa, Deir-ez-Zor in the east and northeast of the country are currently controlled by the US-backed Kurdish democratic forces of Syria.

Since 2015, the American command has established nine military bases in the area. Four of them are located near the oil fields in Deir-ez-Zor and five more in the neighboring province of Al-Hasakah, which is considered the granary of Syria. At the end of 2019, former US President Donald Trump approved a plan according to which several hundred American troops will remain in Syria, one of the main tasks of which will be to ensure control over oil fields in the northeast and east of the country.

Meanwhile, in Damascus, the US military presence is viewed as an illegal occupation, which is accompanied by the plunder of natural resources belonging to the Syrian people.