US deploying more troops around Syria oil fields after killing of Isis leader

Trump has said he hopes to secure a US share of Syrian oil revenues, which is potentially a war crimeA convoy of US military vehicles, arriving from northern Iraq, drives along a road in the countryside of Syria’s north-eastern city of Qamishli on 26 October 2019. Photograph: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty ImagesThe US military has started reinforcing its positions around oil fields in eastern Syria, saying the new deployments are part of its continuing counter-terrorist mission after the k