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url:https://www.newsweek.com/syria-trump-stealing-oil-us-confirms-deal-1526589
Didn't Trump say that he was leaving Syria?
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Syria has accused President Donald Trump of stealing the country's oil,
after U.S. officials confirmed that a U.S. company has been allowed to
operate there in fields under the control of a Pentagon-backed militia.
In remarks delivered Tuesday and sent to Newsweek by the Syrian
permanent mission to the United Nations, representative Bashar
al-Jaafari told the U.N. Security Council that "the U.S. occupation
forces, in full view of the United Nations and the international
community, took a new step to plunder Syria's natural resources,
including Syrian oil and gas" through the recent establishment of a
company called "Crescent Delta Energy."
This firm, "with the sponsorship and support of the US Administration,
has entered into a contract with the so-called 'Syrian Democratic
Forces/SDF' militia, an agent of the US occupation forces in
northeastern Syria, with the aim of stealing Syrian oil and depriving
the Syrian state and Syrian people of the basic revenues necessary to
improve the humanitarian situation, provide for livelihood needs and
reconstruction," he added.
The Syrian diplomat noted that Trump had made his intentions known
earlier, such as in a late October press conference at which the
president said he sought "to make a deal with an ExxonMobil or one of
our great companies" to take hold of oil in Syria. Trump has publicly
professed "I love oil!" and that he was staying militarily involved
Syria "only for the oil," even as his officials insisted the Pentagon's
main focus was battling the Islamic State militant group (ISIS).
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