Woah. Thanks for the information.

Must only be a coincidence that Royal Dutch Shell is a large shareholder of Al-Furat Petroleum Company.

Sigh. I naively wish for world peace after reading all this.

Thanks for putting this together! When I start thinking about this conflict, it seems when I look for information on why it's going on I always end up at "it's complicated". Now I understand how many layers there are...