Figures from oil workers in Syria and Iraq along with Western intelligence estimates suggest up to 40,000 barrels are being produced every day at oil fields in ISIS-held territory (seen above)
Daily Mail: ISIS are still making £300MILLION a year from oil despite U.S.-led air strikes... and are even selling fuel to rebel groups they are fighting
* ISIS-held oil fields producing 40,000 barrels every day, bringing in £1million
* Highlights failure of West's bombing campaign on refineries and pipelines
* Jihadis have adapted by creating hundreds of small facilities to refine oil
* Syrian rebel commander admits he is forced to buy diesel from ISIS areas
* He said: 'It's a situation that makes you laugh and cry. We have no choice'
The Islamic State is still making more than £320million a year from oil despite the U.S.-led bombing campaign that was meant to break up the insurgency.
Figures from oil workers in Syria and Iraq along with Western intelligence estimates suggest up to 40,000 barrels are being produced every day in ISIS-held territory.
This output – which generates around £1million a day in revenue – highlights a stark failure of the year-long coalition air strikes which have repeatedly targeted the group's refineries and pipelines.
The situation has become so perverse that one Syrian rebel commander admitted he is forced to buy diesel from ISIS areas while fighting the terror group.
Update: Isis Inc: how oil fuels the jihadi terrorists -- Financial Times
WNU Editor: So much for U.S. air strikes in the past year. That is why I am willing to bet that in the next few months the Islamic State's oil business is going to be shut down by Russian air strikes .... and they will succeed because they will not be following the same rules of engagement that the Americans must follow. I can hear the Russian commander now .... if you are flying over ISIS territory, and if you see a truck that looks like an oil truck .... bomb it.