Soldiers of a Russian military convoy and their U.S. counterparts exchange greetings as their patrol routes intersect in an oil field near Syria's Al-Qahtaniyah town in the northeastern Al-Hasakah ...

BRUSSELS — The United States will send armored vehicles and combat troops into eastern Syria to keep oil fields from potentially falling into the hands of Islamic State militants, U.S. Defense ...

In its decades of tension with the Kurdish fighters, Turkey has already launched three military operations against the PKK in Syria’s north, the latest of which was in 2019.

Reporting from BEIRUT — Russia has accused Turkey and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of colluding with the militant group Islamic State in an industrial-scale, illegal oil trade. The ...

U.S. troops were guarding the largest oil field in eastern Syria, ... along with a fresh new deployment of Bradley Fighting Vehicles—in the "oil region" of Syria. They would not stop Turkey, ...

The field is in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour, near Iraq, and it followed the Islamic State group’s seizure of Syria’s largest oil field on Thursday.

It is doubtful whether Vladimir Putin genuinely believes his accusation that Turkey is so committed to the smuggling of Syrian oil that it would shoot down a Russian jet to protect it, says energy ...

This village is near the giant Rumelian oil field and six miles (10km) downstream from Gir Zero, ... The perceived threat of Turkey in northern Syria adds to the pressure.

Like Moscow and Washington, Ankara seems to be coveting the oilfields of Deir ez-Zor in Syrian Kurdistan, which Kurds fear would give Turkey an opening to take over the entire Rojava area. Turkey ...

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said he asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to jointly manage oil fields in eastern Syria's Deir al-Zor region, in place of the Kurdish-led forces which ...

Before the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad's government began in March 2011, the oil sector was a pillar of Syria's economy, with the country producing about 380,000 barrels a day ...

Again, I think that Turkey’s domestic and foreign policies are so intimately intertwined, and I think this is one of these cases in which we can see that. My colleague has just written an excellent ...