US troops may guard Syrian oil: Pentagon

By Kawa Omar and Idrees Ali
Updated October 21 2019 - 11:18pm, first published 11:13pm
A convoy of US troops has arrived back in Iraq from northeastern of Syria.
A convoy of US troops has arrived back in Iraq from northeastern of Syria.

The Pentagon is considering keeping some US troops near oilfields in northeastern Syria alongside Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to help deny oil to Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Mark Esper has said.

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