A worker at a primitive oil refinery poses for a picture at the facility in the town of al-Qahtaniya in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakah province, near the border with Turkey. All photos: AFP
A worker at a primitive oil refinery poses for a picture at the facility in the town of al-Qahtaniya in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakah province, near the border with Turkey. All photos: AFP
A worker at a primitive oil refinery poses for a picture at the facility in the town of al-Qahtaniya in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakah province, near the border with Turkey. All photos: AFP
A worker at a primitive oil refinery poses for a picture at the facility in the town of al-Qahtaniya in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakah province, near the border with Turkey. All photo

Inside a Syrian oil refinery - in pictures


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All photos: AFP
All photos: AFP

A rudimentary oil refinery in Syria, and the workers who toil there, are the subject of this striking series of images. They were taken in al-Qahtaniyah in the Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakah province, near the border with Turkey.

Updated: November 23, 2021, 11:34 AM