Syria: Toxic Hell of Syria’s Oil Fields

Dec 1, 2016 | Kieran Cooke, Middle East Eye
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The satellite images tell the story: black, T-shaped marks littered across areas of the land in eastern Syria controlled by the Islamic State. On closer inspection, these are small, makeshift oil refineries – analysts have counted nearly 6,000 sites near Deir Ezzor, the main centre of Syria’s oil industry, and say there are thousands more spewing thick black smoke into the air located throughout IS territory – and in areas to the north now controlled by Kurdish forces.