Deir Ezzor | SDF patrol clashes with regime soldiers and burns diesel tanker on Euphrates river

Syrian Observatory sources have reported that a SDF patrol has raided ferries used by smugglers from Al-Shuhail town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor to transport oil to regime-held areas west of Euphrates, where SDF members clashed with regime soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Hawija Al-Shamiyyah on the banks of Euphrates River, opposite to Al-Shuhail town, burning tankers loaded with diesel.

Yesterday, SOHR activists reported that SDF’s military forces stormed the smuggle crossings at Euphrates river, fired RPG shells on tanks for smuggling oil parked in Huwaigat Al-Shamiyah in the western bank of Euphrates river and confiscated pipelines that pump oil.

These events coincided with disputes between different smugglers and influential figures over the incomes of smuggling.