Pompeo-Backed Oil Company Loses Syria Contract

Biden administration said to cancel license for firm co-founded by decorated Delta Force officer, Trump donor and oil exec

For more than a year, a little-known American oil company, whose founders include a decorated former high-ranking Delta Force officer, has been pumping, refining and exporting oil from Syria’s Deir al-Zour oil fields in the country’s Kurdish-controlled northeast under a special license granted by the Trump administration that exempted it from sanctions.