Damascus: US Helped Daesh Gain Control over Syria’s Oil
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Speaking at the Moscow Conference on International Security, Syria's Deputy Defense Minister Mahmoud al-Shawa stated that the US is trying to establish control over Syrian oil fields.
The Syrian official said that the United States had "decided to invent various pretexts to justify keeping the illegal presence of their bases and troops on Syrian soil in order to establish control and domination over the oil fields in order to separate Syria."
The deputy minister stressed that Washington was also assisting Daesh [the Arabic acronym for terrorist ‘ISIS/ISIL' group] for this purpose.
The US grossly violated humanitarian law during the conduct of military operations in Syria, Mahmoud al-Shawa said.
He noted that after the forces of Russia and Iran "contributed to the end of the war of attrition," the United States stepped up its presence in the northern part of Syria.
"This was accompanied by US-"Israeli" aggression, a gross violation of international humanitarian law in order to support terrorist groups," al-Shawa added.
The US-led coalition of more than 70 members is conducting military operations in Syria and Iraq. The coalition's strikes in Iraq are conducted in cooperation with Iraqi officials, but in Syria they are neither authorized by the Syrian government nor the United Nations Security Council.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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