The U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) claimed Saturday to have recaptured Syria’s largest oil field from the Islamic State.
Syrian government forces and the U.S.-backed SDF are in a race to take control of energy resources in Syria located in Deir ez-Zor province, and according to SDF spokesman Nasser Haj Mansour, the militia seized the Conoco gas field Saturday, ripping it away from ISIS fighters, the Associated Press reports.
“This is the first gas or oil field in the campaign which we have liberated,” one SDF commander told Reuters.
Mansour added that SDF took the al-Izba gas field, as well. Both fields are located in Deir ez-Zor. – READ MORE
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