| Submit your comments on this article |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| IS now controls all of Syria's main oil fields |
| 2014-07-05 |
| [ARABNEWS] Militants seized an eastern Syrian oil field early Friday as they try to consolidate their control of an area along the length of the Euphrates river stretching through Syria and Iraq. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that fighters from the Islamic State (IS) group seized the Al-Tanak oil field early Friday. Another group, the activist collective of Deir El-Zor, also reported the seizure. The field is in the eastern Syrian province of Deir El-Zor, near Iraq, and it followed the IS group's seizure of Syria's largest oil field on Thursday. Both oil fields were taken from other rebel groups. IS now fully controls all of Syria's main oil and gas fields, which are located in Deir el-Zour Province next to Iraq, a monitoring group said. IS declared a "caliphate" in areas it controls in Syria and Iraq, where it is spearheading an offensive against government troops. "IS took control of the Tanak oil field, located in the Sheiytat desert area in the east of Deir el-Zour Province," late Thursday after rival rebels withdrew, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The group is led by an ambitious Iraqi Death Eater known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who this week declared the establishment of a state, or caliphate, in the lands it has seized in Syria and Iraq. It proclaimed Al-Baghdadi the head of its new self-styled state and demanded that all Moslems pledge allegiance to him. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 At this rate ISIL will be able to buy their own airplanes to commit terrorist acts instead of hijacking them. And with that much L'Argent I am sure they can find someone with a spare nuke or two. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-07-05 11:16 |
| #6 Well then. Okay. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-07-05 10:50 |
| #5 There have always been reports that Al Nusra, and then the IS, were tacitly supported by the Assad government. Much of that can be discounted, but as with anything else related to the Arab, there's always a small grain of truth under the pile of rocks. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-07-05 10:41 |
| #4 It seems the Syrian government dont attack ISIS areas and used the same men against US troops in Iraq. Certainly, defending the oil fields does not seem to have been a high priority of Assad's, I agree, Thusosh Untervehr8552. But with limited manpower, ought not he have been concentrating on securing his tribe, the areas containing other groups loyal to his government, rather than oil fields when he couldn't guarantee shipping lanes within the country? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-07-05 08:05 |
| #3 ??? |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-07-05 06:13 |
| #2 Huh? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-07-05 04:08 |
| #1 With Assad's consent! It seems the Syrian government dont attack ISIS areas and used the same men against US troops in Iraq. |
| Posted by: Thusosh Untervehr8552 2014-07-05 01:54 |