Syria: Why Syria’s Small Oil Reserves Have become the Linchpin for Political Control in the Region

Dec 13, 2019 | Justin Higginbottom, CNBC
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Times have changed in Syria. The oil has attracted another foreign power — the U.S. military — and Kurdish-led forces are the ones controlling the area and collecting revenue. The oil could be just enough to prop up the Syrian government — or a competing power. And who controls oil-rich stretches of the Syrian desert could determine who controls large regions of the country.