US military convoy enters Hasakah in northeast Syria from Iraq: SANA

Local sources in the town of Yaarubiyah, requesting not to be named, told Syria’s official news agency SANA that a convoy of about 50 vehicles, including trucks and oil tankers, crossed the al-Walid border crossing into Syrian territories on Sunday.

Since late October 2019, the United States has been redeploying troops to the oil fields controlled by Kurdish forces in eastern Syria, in a reversal of President Donald Trump’s earlier order to withdraw all troops there.

The Pentagon alleges that the move aims to “protect” the fields and facilities from possible attacks by Daesh, ignoring the fact that Trump had earlier suggested that Washington sought economic interests in controlling the oil fields.

Syria, which has not authorized the presence of the US military in its territory, says Washington is “plundering” the country’s oil.

The presence of US terrorist forces in eastern Syria has particularly irked the civilians, and local residents have on several occasions stopped American military convoys entering the region.  

Turkish-backed militants, Kurdish forces clash in Aleppo 

Elsewhere in Syria’s Northwestern province of Aleppo, bitter clashes broke out been Turkish-backed Takfiri militants and Kurdish forces.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the fierce exchange of gunfire took place in Mare' town on Sunday and was accompanied by heavy shelling.