Syria blames 'terrorist groups' and their alleged foreign backers for recent attacks on oil and gas sites in Homs and Tartus province. The United States maintains control of oil fields in the east.
A series of unclaimed terrorist attacks has hit oil and gas facilities in central and western Syria in recent weeks, areas under the control of the country's government.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent a letter Wednesday to the United Nations Security Council blaming"terrorist groups" and their alleged foreign backers for acts of sabotage targeting its energy infrastructure.
"In the face of these repeated and deliberate attacks on oil and economic establishments, the Syrian Arab Republic reserves the right to require countries that provide all forms of support to armed terrorist groups to pay compensation to Syria as a result of this systematic destruction as a right pursuant to international law and requests these countries to immediately stop these practices that destroy the capabilities of the Syrian people, prolongs the crisis and slows down the recovery...
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