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| DER EZZOUR, (ST)_Unknown gunmen attacked the illegal base of US occupation forces in “al-Omar” oil field in the northeastern countryside of Der Ezzour, according to the Syrian Alikhbaria TV channel.
Friday, 06 December 2019 11:14 | Published Date
The attack was carried out at the moment of the arrival of military and logistic aid to the base.
US occupation forces responded to the attack using artillery and flare bombs.
Basma Qaddour
UNKNOWN GUNMEN ATTACK U.S.-OCCUPIED OMAR OILS FIELDS IN EASTERN SYRIA – REPORTSEarly on December 6, unknown gunmen attacked the U.S.-occupied Omar oil fields in the southeastern countryside of Syria’s Deir Ezzor, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).The state-run agency’s reporter in the eastern region said that the attack coincided with the arrival of U.S. military and logistic supplies to a base inside the fields.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied the SANA’s report claiming that the explosions heard near the oil fields were a result of live fire drills between its units and the U.S.-led coalition.
The Omar oil fields are among the biggest in Syria. Prior to the Syrian war, the fields produced around 30,000 oil barrels per day. The remaining ISIS cells in the eastern region launched several attacks on the oil fields over the last year.
U.S. forces reinforced their positions in the al-Omar oil fields in the last two months as a part of Washington’s new plan to “guard” oil fields in eastern Syria. The highly questionable plan was widely seen as an attempt to pillage the war-torn country’s oil.
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