Iraqi Government Says It Has Thwarted Oil-Trafficking To Syria

The Iraqi government announced the seizure of 1,200 tanks of oil that were due to be trafficked to Syria through Iraq’s northern border, an Iraqi newspaper reported Saturday.

State-funded al-Sabah newspaper quoted official government spokesman Adnan al-Kadhemi as saying that the Iraqi intelligence thwarted an illegal attempt to transport 1,200 tanks of oil refined at Bayji to Syria through al-Rabiyeh outlet in Mosul, 550 kilometres north of Baghdad.
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