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A convoy of U.S. military vehicles, arriving from northern Iraq, drives past an oil pump jack in the countryside of Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli on Oct. 26. Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Opinion

Opinion: Why Syria's Oil Matters

October 31, 2019 • What happens to the country's small oil resources — once a revenue stream for ISIS — will be important not to world oil markets but to the future of Syria itself, write Roger Diwan and Daniel Yergin.