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The Inside Story of How Trump ‘Kept the Oil’ in Syria and Lost Kenneth R. Rosen © Provided by The Daily Beast Delil Souleiman/Getty
American forces only stayed in Syria to comprehensively defeat ISIS, a spokesman explained; any military presence around the oil fields was purely part of the mission to overcome the so-called Islamic State.
Two years later, the remnants of ISIS are diminished, but American troops are still on the ground, still helping to protect that oil.
The official stance of the White House, the State Department and the Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria was then and remains now that keeping the oil is not the reason American men and women are still stationed in one of the world’s most treacherous conflicts. U.S. forces and the coalition more broadly “does not provide assistance to any private companies, employees or agents in seeking to develop oil resources NE Syria,” a spokesperson said in March.