In December, the 550-mile oil pipeline stretching from Kirkuk, Iraq, across 305 miles of Syria to the Mediterranean ports of Baniyas and Tripoli went as dry as the arid land through which it snakes.

Syria has been struggling with oil shortages, as no crude shipments from its key supplier, Iran, have arrived since November. The country also issued an import tender for 20,000 tons of LPG and is ...

A segment of the pipeline runs from Aquaba north across Jordan to Syria. It is shown in the map below ... Damascus used to receive the bulk of its oil for power generation from Iran, but supplies ...

Iraq is pondering exporting crude oil through Syria and ... The 850-km pipeline had a capacity of around 300,000 barrels per day. Between 1982 and 2000 Iraq shut the pipeline due to political rifts ...