On April 9, China’s state-run English-language newspaper China Daily published a cartoon video depicting U.S. soldiers as stealing oil in Syria. Here is our FactCheck:
To be sure, in November 2019, then President Donald Trump confused matters when he said U.S. troops were in Syria solely to protect oil fields in the northeastern part of the country. “We’re keeping the oil, we have the oil, the oil is secure, we left troops behind only for the oil,” TrumpThe U.S., however, did not “keep the oil,” and in May 2021, the administration of President Joe Biden discontinued a waiver that had allowed a politically-connected U.S.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, traveled to the Kurdish-controlled territory in northeastern Syria last month to assess the nearly eight-year-old U.S. military mission in the country.its campaign in Syria in 2014, shortly after ISIS made rapid territorial gains in Syria and Iraq and declared the Syrian city of Raqqa as the capital of its so-called caliphate.
The U.S. counterterrorism campaign in Syria included airstrikes and arming, training and advising Kurdish-led fighters, who became known as the Syrian Democratic Forces , to fight ISIS. of U.S. troops from Syria. The decision elicited bipartisan concerns in Washington that the U.S. withdrawal would lead to an ISIS resurgence and cede control of the SDF-held region to the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad and Russia.
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