News - Middle East: The US military has reportedly used dozens of tanker trucks to smuggle crude oil from Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah to areas in northern Iraq, as Washington continues to loot energy resources in the war-torn country.

A convoy of 33 tankers, laden with oil from the energy-rich Jazira and Sharqia regions, left Syria through the illegal Mahmoudiya border crossing on Monday, and headed towards Iraqi territories, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported citing local sources.

Back on April 22, SANA reported that American occupation forces had used 33 tankers to plunder the natural resources of the Arab country through the Mahmoudiya crossing.

Another 40 US military tankers, loaded with Syrian crude oil, rumbled through the al-Waleed border crossing of al-Ya'rubiyah region in a separate convoy, and entered the Iraqi territories on the same day.

The US military has for long stationed its forces and equipment in northeastern Syria, with the Pentagon claiming that the deployment is aimed at preventing the oilfields in the area from falling into the hands of Daesh terrorists.

Damascus, however, maintains the deployment is meant to plunder the country’s natural resources. Former US president Donald Trump admitted on several occasions that American forces were in the Arab country for its oil wealth.