![]() ![]() There were soldiers from the West Virginia National Guard at one of the fields. mission began last fall to protect the oil fields. Well, actually, it was a multiday attack on two of the oil fields, the first one since the U.S. What have you learned so far?īOWMAN: Right. And ISIS at one time used these oil fields to make millions of dollars to finance their caliphate.ĬORNISH: And now I understand that those same oil fields actually came under attack. You can see the fields stretch into the horizon - really, the size of Vermont. And today we drove for hours in a large armored convoy along these country roads. TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE: Well, Audie, I'm in northeast Syria, and I can't say exactly where for security reasons. Tom, can you just give us a better sense of where you are and about the mission itself? Earlier today, he went along on an American patrol charged with protecting those oil fields. And their new mission is keeping the country's oil fields away from Syrian and Russian forces. and Kurdish forces a year ago this month, but there are still hundreds of U.S. The last ISIS stronghold in Syria fell to U.S. ![]()
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