Saturday 26 December 2015

12,000 oil tankers & trucks on Turkey-Iraq border

Russian intel spots 12,000 oil tankers & trucks on Turkey-Iraq border - General Staff



RT,
25 December, 2015

Russian intelligence has spotted up to 12,000 tankers and trucks on the Turkish-Iraqi border, the General Staff of Russia’s armed forces has reported.

The [aerial] imagery was made in the vicinity of Zakho (a city in Iraqi Kurdistan), there were 11,775 tankers and trucks on both sides of the Turkish-Iraqi border,” Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoy told journalists on Friday.
Most smuggled ISIS oil goes to Turkey, sold at low prices – Norwegian report

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It must be noted that oil from both Iraq and Syria come through this [Zakho] checkpoint,” General Rudskoy said.

Heavy-duty trucks loaded with oil continue to cross the Turkish-Syrian border as well, Rudskoy said. At the same time, the number of tankers on the northern and western routes used for transporting oil from Syria is declining, the general added.


According to satellite data, the number of oil tankers moving through the ‘northern route’ towards the refinery in the [Turkish] city of Batman has considerably diminished,” Rudskoy said, adding that the number of tankers using the ‘western route,’ between the Turkish cities of Reyhanli [on the Syrian border] and the city of Iskenderun, has decreased to 265 vehicles.


The Russian Air Force in Syria has destroyed about 2,000 tankers used by the Islamists for oil transportation. In the last week, Russian warplanes eliminated 17 convoys of oil tankers and a number of installations used by terrorists for oil extraction and processing.


The Russian Air Force’s effective strikes in Syria have forced the terrorists to look for new routes for crude oil transportation. Today, tankers loaded with oil in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province, under Islamic State control, are moving towards the Iraqi border in the direction of Zakho and Mosul.

However, despite a considerable diversion, the finishing point of the trafficking route remains Turkey,” Rudskoy said.


Russian jets bomb ISIS oil tankers in Syria (MoD VIDEO)


The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video showing its air attacks on Islamic State (IS) oil tankers and trucks in Syria. The vehicles explode after being hit by precision airstrikes, and are engulfed in flames.


Russia has been bombing IS infrastructure and positions from its Khmeimim airbase in Latakia since September 30, at the request of the Syrian authorities.


Daesh, Nusra Fighters Begin Turning in Heavy Arms Outside Syrian Capital

Fighters from the Daesh and the al-Nusra Front have begun giving up heavy weapons to the Syrian army south of the Arab republic’s capital of Damascus, a military source said Friday.



25 December, 2015

DAMASCUS (Sputnik) – The source said engineer troops arrived with UN representatives near the Yarmouk Camp in southern Damascus on Thursday to accept heavy weapons from the militants.

"The militants who have given up their weapons will be taken toward Beer al-Qasab, an eastern suburb of Damascus, with their families," the military source told RIA Novosti.

A total of over 3,500 fighters and their family members have so far agreed to leave the suburb of Al Hajar Al Aswad where the camp is located, the source dded.

News emerged on Thursday that 5,000 militants and their families would be relocated from Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, Al-Qadam and Al-Asali under an agreement brokered by an unnamed third party starting this weekend.

According to media reports, the militants permitted to carry personal weapons, would be taken to the Daesh stronghold of Raqqah as part of the agreement.
About 18,000 people are estimated to live in Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp established in 1957.

Daesh militants overran major portions of Yarmouk in early April

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