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The United States exported about 50 tons of gold from Syria

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Friday, 01 March, 2019, 12:05
The United States exported about 50 tons of gold from Syria

The US Army exported about 50 tons of gold from Syria, according to local sources, the Syrian national agency SANA reported.
It is noted that the US military has agreed with terrorist groups in the province of Deir ez-Zor that the militants will give the US all their gold in exchange for security guarantees.
The agency reports that this gold was looted by militants in Iraq and Syria and hidden in the vicinity of the village of Baghus in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, which is one of the last strongholds of terrorists in Syria and which is surrounded by US troops.
The total amount of precious metal transmitted by the militants is about 40 tons. Together with the gold found by the US military in other caches of terrorists, the volume of this precious metal, which fell into the hands of the US military, is about 50 tons, the agency said.
It clarifies that the American military received the gold from the terrorists at night taken by helicopter.