Strait of Hormuz Blocked, Iraq Ships Oil via Syria

Odaily reported that Iraq's border crossing management department stated on the 2nd that 70 oil tankers loaded with crude oil entered Syria from Iraq via the Rabia crossing that day. This marks Iraq's reactivation of this land oil transport route after 13 years. Located in Nineveh Governorate in northwestern Iraq, the Rabia crossing had been largely closed since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011 and only reopened this April. The crossing is not far from the oil fields in Mosul and Kirkuk in northern Iraq.