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(www.voanews.com, August 06, 2020)
US Firm Secures Oil Deal with US-Backed Forces in Syria
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A U.S. company has reportedly reached a deal with Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria
to develop and export crude oil in areas under their control in the war-torn country.

A senior official at the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration in Northeast Syria said
the deal was approved by the U.S. government.

...“Syria considers this agreement null and void and has no legal effect. And it warns again that
such despicable acts express the approach of those client militias which have accepted to be a cheap puppet in the hands of the U.S. occupation,”
Syria’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday.

Turkey, which views Syrian Kurdish fighters as terrorists, also criticized the deal.
“We deeply regret the U.S. support to this step, disregarding international law, violating territorial integrity,
unity and sovereignty of Syria, as well as being considered within the scope of financing terrorism,”
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday.