Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has underscored a confession by US President Donald Trump that the Islamic Republic hates the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, and that the presence of American forces in Syria was for plundering the Arab country's oil resources. Zarif made the remarks on Tuesday in a tweet accompanied by a ...

Euronews | Bill Neely and Saphora Smith and Associated PresswithNBC News World News: A top adviser to Syria's president says the United States has no right to Syria's oil and has warned of "operations" against American troops guarding the oil fields. Bouthaina Shaaban, who is a political and media adviser to Bashar al-Assad, recently told NBC News ...

RT - Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden who, back in the good old Obama administration days, lobbied for the arming of moderate rebels in Syria slammed Trump for downgrading the US military to an oilfield occupation force. Leaving troops behind like [Trumps] doing now he says that what he wants to do is were going to occupy the oil fields ...

LobeLog | Paul R. Pillar: Confusion has prevailed regarding the purposes of the U.S. troop presence in Syria, and whether the declared purposes are the actual ones. Originally the expedition was widely understood to be all about combating the Islamic State (ISIS) after the group had established a mini-state on a large portion of Syrian and Iraqi territory....

RT - The US was arrogant to send its troops to guard oilfields in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, adding that it remains unclear from whom the installations need to be protected. The actions of the Americans in Syria violate international law, as their presence in the country is illegal, Lavrov reiterated, appearingalongside ...

TASS - The United States smuggles Syrian oil to other countries, the convoys are guarded by US private military companies and special operations forces, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said. "Tank trucks guarded by US military servicemen and private military companies smuggle oil from fields in eastern Syria to other countries....