BALADI NEWS
The U.S.-led coalition hit Bashar al-Assad regime's tankers carrying out oil trade with the People's Protection Units (YPG), which is supported by Washington under the pretext of fighting against ISIS (Daesh).
Anadolu Agency (AA) reported that U.S. forces targeted the regime's oil-laden tankers, which were transporting their cargo on the Euphrates River, with heavy machine guns, according to local sources from Deir Ezzor province.
Later, coalition forces seized the tankers, the agency added. The incident came after protests by civilians against the YPG's alleged oil smuggling in Deir Ezzor.
About 70 percent of Syria's oil resources lie within the territories currently occupied by the U.S.-backed YPG.
On the eastern side of the Euphrates, which cuts the province in to two there are 11 oil fields. These oilfields make up around one-third of the energy sources in Syria.
Source: Daily Sabah.