RMEILAN, Syria (AP) — Driving along the roads of northeastern Syria, one would imagine there is a massive economic boom in the war-ravaged area.
Convoys of oil trucks, as many as 50 trucks in each, line the highways. They haul oil extracted from fields held by the U.S-backed Kurds, transporting it across the territory they control since driving out the Islamic State group.
But the oil industry is in shambles. After seven years of war, infrastructure is broken down and antiquated, there is no investment in the fields and the fight over control of oil resources is far from over.
Along the roads,...
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