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Syrian forces and tribal fighters seized control of the Omar oil field, Syria's largest, and the Conoco gas field in the country's east after expelling YPG/SDF terrorist group forces, security sources confirmed Sunday.
Syrian troops fighting YPG/SDF-led forces took control of the two strategic energy facilities in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, three security sources told Reuters and Al Arabiya.
A Syrian security source confirmed to Al Jazeera the withdrawal of SDF forces from the Omar and al-Tanak oil fields in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Tribes that revolted in Syria's Deir ez-Zor province, east of the Euphrates River, along with tribal forces arriving from west of the river, liberated the area containing the natural gas and oil fields from the YPG/SDF terror group.
The United States had previously used these fields as a base before withdrawing, creating a security vacuum in the region, according to Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) correspondents in Deir ez-Zor.
Tribal fighters advanced against the terror group east of the Euphrates River and seized control of the towns and villages of Shuhail, Hawaij, Ziban, Tayyane, Abu Hammam, Hatla, Garanic, Baghouz, Susah and Shafa.
A Syrian military source confirmed to Al Jazeera that the Syrian army expelled the SDF from the area west of the Euphrates, stating that "the state extends its control over the west of the Euphrates."
Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that SDF forces were withdrawing from all oil fields in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, adding that heavy Syrian Army vehicles began entering the oil sites from which the SDF had withdrawn.
Water supplies to the city of Raqqa in northern Syria were completely cut on Sunday after the SDF group blew up the Old Bridge over the Euphrates River, according to the Syrian News Agency, SANA.
SANA cited the Raqqa Media Directorate as saying that "water supplies to the city of Raqqa were completely cut off after the SDF blew up the main water pipelines supplying the city, which run along the Old Bridge."
The group also detonated the New al-Rashid Bridge in Raqqa, the agency reported.
Syrian state media reported SDF-led forces destroyed two main bridges over the Euphrates River in the Raqqa region as government troops pushed into SDF-held territory for the first time in more than a decade.
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