Syria/Kurdistan: Syrian Kurds Attempt to Stimulate their Economy through Oil Trade

May 12, 2018 | SOFREP
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In northern Syria the economy is struggling in the wake of the Islamic State war, the Kurds of Rojava have resorted to the oil trade to stimulate it. You would think it is doing well by appearances, oil tanker trucks line the highways there. Their haul of oil has been gathered from the oil fields in Deir ez-Zor and are transporting it throughout the region to buyers from all over. Despite this, the oil trade industry in the territory is doing terrible. The years of conflict having engulfed Syria has left the regions infrastructure fractured and outdated, no investments have been made in Rojava’s oil fields and the battle for control of the territories vast natural resource has not come to an end yet.