The caravan transported heavy military equipment, armored fighting vehicles, weapons and large amounts of ammunition, local activists informed on national television.

The convoy entered from northern Iraq through the illegal border crossings in Simalka, Al Mahmoudiah and al-Waleed, commonly used by the US occupation forces to enter and leave the Syrian territory, and led to the Tell Hamis area in Qamishli, in northeastern Syria.

The United States has at least a dozen bases in Syria, mostly in the oil and gas fields in the northeastern region of Al Jazeera, while it has one base in the Al-Tanf area, bordering Iraq, to prevent any land communication between these two countries.

The Damascus Government repeatedly denounced the illegal presence of US troops, which it described as occupation, and assured that Washington’s actions in Syria encourage terrorist activity and aim to destabilize the country and loot its wealth.

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