ISIS has cut its fighters’ salaries by 50 per cent in Syria as air strikes continue to target oil fields, supply lines and cash stores, harming its revenue streams, UK Inde-pendent reported Monday.
ISIS has cut its fighters’ salaries by 50 per cent in Syria as air strikes continue to target oil fields, supply lines and cash stores, harming its revenue streams, UK Inde-pendent reported Monday.
“On account of the exceptional circumstances, the ISIS is facing, it has been decided to reduce the salaries that are paid to all mujahideen by half, and it is not allowed for anyone to be exempted from this decision, whatever his position,” the “Independent said, citing a purported ISIS document. “Let it be known that work will continue to distribute provisions twice every month as usual.”
The document appears to have been released by ISIS’ treasury, the Bayt Mal al-Muslimeen, in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria. A US-led coalition, Russia, France and Britain have all been pounding ISIS targets and the US claimed in November that operations against ISIS were already causing “significant damage” to the militant group’s funding. Amer-ican officials vowed to “step up the attack”; ISIS’s Omar oil fields were the first targeted by British warplanesr.
