DAMASCUS, (Xinhua) -- The US forces stole 398 tanks of Syrian oil during the past five days and sent them to their bases in Iraqi territory through illegal crossings, the official news agency (SANA) reported on Tuesday.

The official agency quoted local sources in Al-Hasakah countryside (northeastern Syria ) as saying, “The American forces have intensified during the past days the theft of oil from the Syrian Al-Jazeera fields, as the number of tanks loaded with stolen oil since last Thursday reached 398 tanks, all of which were transported to Iraqi territory through a crossing.” Illegitimate Mahmudiyah.

SANA indicated that the US forces stole today 65 tanks of Syrian oil from inside the Syrian territory to Iraq through the Mahmoudiyah crossing, which is an illegal route established to send oil tankers from Syria to Iraq.

The American forces, who took control of the main oil and gas fields in Hasakah with the help of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), regularly smuggled oil out of Syria.

Yesterday, Monday, the American forces removed 100 tanks loaded with stolen Syrian oil from Hasakah to their bases in neighboring Iraq, according to SANA.

Last Saturday, a convoy of 89 tankers loaded with stolen oil was sent to the US bases in Iraq through the same crossing.

SANA added that last Thursday, the United States sent a convoy of 144 oil tankers in the same way.

The official Syrian news agency stated that the incident comes within the framework of America's continuous violations of international principles and its involvement in plundering the natural resources of other countries and starving their people.

Damascus repeatedly accuses the United States of stealing oil and wheat from the areas it controls in northern and eastern Syria and transporting them through trucks and tankers to Iraq.

And the Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources in Syria announced in a statement posted on its Facebook page last Tuesday that 66,000 barrels of oil per day were stolen by the American forces from the occupied fields in the eastern region, noting that the total direct and indirect losses since the beginning of the war are in Syria amounted to about 105 billion dollars until the middle of the year 2022.