Syria: Trump Wants US Companies to Tap Syria’s Oil, Despite Experts Warning That Could Be a War Crime

Oct 31, 2019 | Negar Mortazavi, Independent
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Having provoked bipartisan and international condemnation for abruptly announcing a withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria, effectively greenlighting the subsequent Turkish incursion into largely Kurdish-held territory, Donald Trump quickly did an about face.  Some troops, he announced last week, would be returning to the country. But not to support those Kurdish allies, so vital in the US-led coalition's battle against Isis, but to "secure the oil," he repeated on Monday.