The US Defense Department said on Thursday it planned to beef up its presence in northeastern Syria to protect the oil fields there from being retaken by a potentially resurgent Islamic State (ISIS) group.
"The US is committed to reinforcing our position, in coordination with our SDF partners, in northeast Syria with additional military assets to prevent those oil fields from falling back to into the hands of ISIS or other destabilizing actors," a defense official said in a statement quoted by AFP.
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