BALADI NEWS
The Assad regime news agency SANA reported that several tankers and oil refiners were destroyed as some Kurdish organizations were using them to transport the Syrian oil to Turkey.
"After verifying the smuggling of Syrian oil in the Syrian al-Jazeera region by some Kurdish organizations on board tankers through Jarablus Road and Arbil area in northern Iraq to the Turkish regime which they claim that it is their main enemy, on Tuesday morning a group of these tankers were destroyed along with oil refining centers," SANA cited a field source as saying.
The source affirmed that tight measures will be taken against any process of smuggling oil stolen from the Syrian territory.
The US Central Command denied Tuesday responsibility for overnight raids on crude oil refineries in al-Bab and Jarablus countrysides northeast of Aleppo in the Euphrates shield's region, which is controlled by the Syrian National Army.
A spokesman of the Central Command reaffirmed to the Defence Post reporter that the warplanes of the US-led coalition are not responsible for the aerial airstrikes which killed many civilians who worked in the crude oil refiners in Aleppo's northeastern countryside.
The Central Command spokesman's statements came in response to the allegations of the Russian news agency "Sputnik" that US F-16 fighters belonging to the US-led international coalition launched several aerial raids on the headquarters of the Syrian National Army east of Aleppo, killing many of its fighters Sputnik pointed out that some of these sites are used for "oil refining" in the SDF regions.