Assad Strikes Oil Deal to Keep War Machine Moving
12 years, 7 months ago

Assad Strikes Oil Deal to Keep War Machine Moving

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The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is falling apart. With as much as an estimated one-third of the regime's budget coming from crude exports, Assad's ability to pay his bills -- and import refined gasoline to fuel his army -- had been pauperized. "We need oil, oil products," said Qadri Jamil, Syria's deputy prime minister for economics. In late July, Assad unleashed his air force on the northern city of Aleppo -- Syria's largest city -- in what may have been the biggest air attack of the war. The last senior regime official to flee from a comparable post was Syria's deputy oil minister, who abandoned the regime in March.

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13 years ago

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