Syrians Queue for Fuel as Iraqi Oil Flows Past Them

Syrians Queue for Fuel as Iraqi Oil Flows Past Them

In Aleppo, the city long known as Syria's industrial capital, the fuel stations look abandoned. In a country considered an oil producer, the gasoline pumps have gone completely dark. Station owner after station owner repeats the same thing when we talk to them: We don't know when the gasoline will arrive from the refineries at Baniyas or Homs. The crisis has drawn no explanation from the Energy Ministry of Syria's new government beyond a terse s…