Civilians in northeastern Syrian village stop another US convoy, force it to return to base

Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that a US convoy of armored vehicles was forced to turn around and head back to the base it came from on Wednesday evening after residents of Khirbet Bunyan village, which lies in the al-Malikiyah district of the province, did not allow it to move and pelted it with stones. No injuries were reported.

A similar incident took place on Monday, when a US convoy was confronted by residents of Faris Kabir village in the same Syrian province as it tried to make its way through the area.

Groups of locals hurled stones at the foreign soldiers, forcing the convoy to “go back to where it came from,” according to a report published by SANA at the time.

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

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