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The United States operates about a dozen illegal military bases in Syria, most of them concentrated in energy and food-rich areas of the country east of the Euphrates, which contain about nine-tenths of the war-torn nation's oil and gas resources. Damascus estimates total damage to its hydrocarbons industry of over $100 billion. | U.S. forces in Syria reportedly smuggled a combined 95 tankers' worth of crude oil out of the country using two different convoys over the weekend. Sources in the al-Yaroubia countryside in al-Hasakah province told local media Sunday that 40 tankers of crude oil were shipped to Iraq from the al-Jazeera oil fields using the illegal Mahmoudiya border crossing. The sources also said that a separate convoy of 55 oil tankers, also from the al-Jazeera fields, was smuggled through the same crossing within the same 24-hour window.
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