A top adviser to President
Bashar Assad is
warning of "operations" against American troops guarding Syrian oil
fields, saying the U.S. has "absolutely no right" to Syria's oil.
"It is our oil," Bouthaina Shaaban recently told
NBC News, while warning of “popular opposition and operations against the American occupiers of our oil.”
President Trump
announced in October that he would withdraw U.S. troops from northern
Syria, saying he wanted to bring them home. He later approved a mission
to
secure oil fields in the country.
“He’s
talking about stealing it,” Shaaban said, adding that Assad believes
"our land should be totally and completely liberated from foreign
occupiers, whether they are terrorists, or the Turks or the Americans.”
