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Rockets Hit Satanic US Base in Syria’s Deir Ezzur

Several rockets exploded on Tuesday at a US military base, North of Syria’s Deir Ezzur province.

The attack targeted a US base near the Conoco oil field controlled by American troops and Kurdish units. No information about casualties is available so far.

This is the first-ever attack on one of the 12 military facilities, created by the United States since 2015 in Syria’s provinces of al-Hasakah, Raqqa and Deir Ezzur. US forces, together with Kurdish groups, control oil-rich areas on the Eastern bank of the Euphrates river, including the oil fields of Al-Omar, Tanak, Al-Jafra and Conoco, which accounted for 80% of all oil produced in Syria before the war broke out.

Late last year, US President Donald Trump approved the plan of American troop withdrawal from Syria, according to which only a few hundreds US soldiers will remain in the country. Their main task will be to ensure control over oilfields in the Northeast of the country.

Meanwhile, Damascus views the US military presence on its territory as an “illegal occupation accompanied by plundering of natural resources that belong to the people of Syria”.

On Monday, helicopters of the US Armed Forces opened fire at a Syrian government army checkpoint near the settlement of Tel Dahab in the al-Hasakah province. One Syrian servicemen was killed and two injured. According to SANA, the strike took place after Syrian soldiers refused to let a US patrol pass through one of its checkpoints.

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