{"id":199941,"date":"2019-12-29T09:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T09:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199941"},"modified":"2020-01-01T06:13:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T06:13:57","slug":"syria-trump-administration-builds-military-base-in-oil-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199941","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Trump Administration Builds Military Base in Oil Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Telesur \u2013 Dec 24, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/US-forces-in-Syria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-180621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/US-forces-in-Syria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/US-forces-in-Syria.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/US-forces-in-Syria-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The United States is building a large military base within the al-Omar oil field, in the province of , in Syria, local media reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe U.S. is equipping the base to serve as the command headquarters for the\u00a0international coalition&#8217;s operations,\u201d the Syria Now portal reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Besides fortifying the field with logistic and military reinforcements, the U.S. Army is building airstrips for\u00a0its helicopters, which will be used to monitor oil wells from the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to Syrian analysts, Washington is working to find a mechanism that makes it easier to extract as much Syrian oil as quickly as possible.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">To do so, the U.S. is moving electrical equipment to put the electricity network into operation\u00a0at the oil fields, which would allow it to begin to exploit them.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NamanTarcha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NamanTarcha<\/a><br \/>GLI STATI UNITI DISINFORMANO LA COMUNIT\u00c0 INTERNAZIONALE SULLA SITUAZIONE IN SIRIA<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SxpP5GdR68\">https:\/\/t.co\/SxpP5GdR68<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ausoloda \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50QAnon #SaveTheChildrenWorldWide (@ausoloda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ausoloda\/status\/1207366365990047744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The meme reads, &#8220;The U.S. and its allies continue to misinform the international community about the situation in Syria. This hinders the process of returning Syrian citizens to their homeland.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Previously, the U.S. government withdrew its soldiers from 11 military bases in Syria and concentrated them in the oil fields located in Remelan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The al-Omar base will replace the base that existed at the Lafarge Cement Factory, from which U.S. troops\u00a0withdrew in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On Dec. 20, the Acting Charge de-Affairs of Syria\u2019s permanent mission to the United Nations, Louay Fallouh, asked Washington to end the theft of oil and gas resources belonging to the Syrian state and to withdraw its forces from the Arab country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Syrian ambassador also rejected the draft resolution for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHOA) on his country&#8217;s\u00a0current situation, as it does not address the alleged humanitarian objectives mentioned in its content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Syria-Trump-Administration-Builds-Military-Base-in-Oil-Field-20191224-0005.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having been asked to leave Syria, U.S. forces are reportedly building a large military base within the al-Omar oil field <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199944,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199941\/revisions\/199944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}