{"id":675649,"date":"2020-02-13T03:33:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T00:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/?p=675649"},"modified":"2020-02-13T03:33:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T00:33:23","slug":"us-army-transported-50-tons-of-gold-from-syria-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2020\/02\/13\/us-army-transported-50-tons-of-gold-from-syria-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army transported 50 tons of gold from Syria, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US Army transported 50 tons of gold from Syria, report says
\nDAILY SABAH
\nISTANBUL
\nAFP File Photo<\/p>\n

The U.S. Army is transferring tons of gold from Daesh-held areas in Syria to the U.S., multiple reports said.<\/p>\n

According to a source who spoke to Kurdish Bas News Agency, the U.S. forces transferred about 50 tons of gold from areas seized from Daesh terrorists in eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zour region and gave a portion of the remaining gold to the PKK’s Syrian offshoot People’s Protection Units (YPG).<\/p>\n

The gold was reportedly transported from the U.S. military base in Kobani.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 40 tons of gold bullions stolen by Daesh terrorists from Iraq’s Mosul province was also taken by the U.S. forces.<\/p>\n

Local sources who spoke to regime-run SANA news agency claimed that the troops relocated large boxes containing Daesh’s gold treasure from al-Dashisheh region in southern Hasakah.<\/p>\n

Daesh terrorist leaders nabbed by U.S. troops reportedly provided information on the whereabouts of the gold, the report said.<\/p>\n

The claim coincides with a report by the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, which said that the U.S.-backed YPG was after 40 tons of gold left behind by Daesh terrorists in Deir el-Zour.<\/p>\n

“The U.S.-led coalition forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deliberately do not target the areas under the control of the ISIL terrorists and commanders in Eastern Euphrates in Deir el-Zour as they are trying to locate this treasure by forcing the ISIL militants to speak about its location after surrendering,” the SOHR said, referring to Daesh using another acronym.<\/p>\n

Though Daesh lost many strongholds in Iraq and Syria, a controversial deal between Daesh militants and Syrian groups linked to the PKK, a major terrorist group that carries out attacks in Turkey, helped their safe evacuation from Raqqa, Syria.<\/p>\n

The U.S. still has about 2,000 troops in Syria, many of whom are working in close cooperation with SDF.<\/p>\n

Almost all the territory in the east of the Euphrates River comprising some one-third of the territory of Syria, except for the Assad regime-controlled area near Deir el-Zour and the Daesh-held area near the Iraqi border, is controlled by the SDF. The SDF also controls the districts of Manbij and Tabqah on the right bank of the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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