Daesh hands over Deir ez-Zor oilfields to PKK after deal with US

Details of the Daesh terrorists’ evacuation by the United States from Raqqa have emerged. According to reports, the U.S. struck a deal with Daesh leaving the oilfield of al-Jafra, northeast of Syria’s Deir ez-Zor, to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists in return for the evacuation of 1,300 Daesh terrorists. Daesh abandoned the oil-rich region, which the Assad-Russia-Iran alliance also attempts to seize simultaneously, to the PKK right after the agreement was made in Raqqa.

A BBC report titled “Raqqa’s dirty secret” exposed a secret deal with the U.S. that enabled thousands of Daesh terrorists to flee Syria’s Raqqa.

The U.S.-Daesh negotiation process, conducted by U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk, has begun in Mosul. The U.S. concluded six different agreements in November with Daesh regarding Mosul, Tal Afar, Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor under the name of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The United States has treated the Daesh terrorist organization as a “state” during these agreements.

The PYD, the Syrian branch of the PKK, was among the U.S.-backed SDF to take Raqqa from Daesh. The U.S. has supported the SDF in Syria, which consists of the PKK/PYD and other groups, but has largely ignored its links to the PKK. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.

The agreements included “halting all military operations targeting the regions held by the two parties,” “recognition of borders,” “the establishment of a joint military cooperation between the two parties,” “the settlement of extraordinary conditions violating the deal through negotiation,” “not delivering captives to a third party” and “not intervening with the Syrian and foreign fighters who want to join Daesh.”

A total of 70 percent of the oil wells in Deir ez-Zor, where Syria’s richest oil reservoirs are located, was delivered to the PKK by Daesh. Al-Tanak, al-Omar, al-Ward, al-Jafra and Conoco oil wells are the main wells which were delivered following the negotiations between Daesh and the U.S.