Syria begins oil extraction at recently controlled fields, state news agency says

CAIRO: The Syrian Petroleum Company has begun extracting oil from recently controlled fields and sending output to ‌the ‌Homs ‌and ⁠Baniyas refineries, ‌the state news agency SANA reported on Saturday.
One of those fields, Al-Omar ⁠oilfield, which ‌is the country’s ‍largest, ‍came under ‍government control recently after a lightning offensive against Kurdish forces who had held the site ⁠for nearly a decade and used it as a military base.