DAMASCUS, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Syria's losses caused by the U.S. military operations on its soil is estimated at 111.9 billion U.S. dollars, Syria's foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
The direct losses are estimated at 25.9 billion dollars: 19.8 billion dollars from the U.S. theft of oil and gas, 3.2 billion dollars in damage to state establishments, and 2.9 billion dollars in damage to oil and gas establishments, according to the statement.
Meanwhile, the ministry placed the indirect losses at 86 billion dollars.
"The American occupation forces and the militias associated with it continue their organized looting of oil, wheat, and other basic resources and the national wealth of the Syrian people," the ministry noted.
The ministry statement comes in the light of the current fuel crisis in Syria, which is considered the harshest since a war broke out in the Arab country in 2011. ■
