Paris attacks: ISIS has secret branch of scientists developing CHEMICAL

Given that their oil revenues directly funded the attacks in Paris and the added factor of their ability to radicalise disaffected youths in Western Europe, it is of tantamount importance that the group’s oil network is cut off. Because the US apparently believed the real money for Islamic State came primarily via selling refined oil, rather than crude, last year’s strikes heavily targeted refineries and storage depots, says Bahney. The coalition has been conducting targeted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria as part of a comprehensive strategy to degrade and defeat the terrorist group.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for an orchestrated attack on the iconic French city, which has claimed 130 lives, a figure that keeps mounting.

They are known for mass killings, kidnappings and beheadings of local people as well as Westerners. They have crucified others.

In Nigeria, Islamist fanatics killed 49 people and injured 123 in two separate attacks on successive days.

But after the Paris attacks, there’s also a third potential factor at play in the decision – showing solidarity with the French. Following the steps of al Qaeda may mean more people involved and more similar tactics. In a 2005 letter obtained and publicized by US intelligence, bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, objected to al-Zarqawi’s brutality toward Shiite civilians, saying it would turn Muslims against the group.

The Iraqi officials said the two men were working with al-Baghdadi, citing IS correspondence they seized from al-Jabouri.

Suspicious activity reports that banks file illuminate ISIS’ financial activity and identify targets, including the most productive oil refiners.

Iraqi security forces and Kurdish Peshmerga in northern Iraq have been fighting ISIS on the ground. He and other prisoners joined IS after they were released. He was ousted and later executed.

If Juncker really wants us to stay he should start trying to correct the problems his organisation has caused rather than interfering in our affairs. Government forces also have captured a few neighborhoods on the city’s edge, creating a gateway for advancing troops.

In the Al-Monitor article of October 26 titled “Is Russian intervention in Syria pushing “moderate jihadis” toward Islamic State?”

Perhaps never in the past has a militant group occupied so much territory that it now runs a de facto state with a full-fledged administration headed by its “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. State TV aired exclusive video footage of warplanes striking ISIS positions in Syria. It also receives money from supporters in a few Persian Gulf nations.

Warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition have pummeled at least 175 targets in the ISIS’s major oil-rich areas in a month, as Washington seeks to disrupt a key revenue source which almost brings the radical group of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) nearly $1 million a day.

Goodson, professor of Middle East Studies at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, this week outlined a slew of factors – both global and domestic – that he said frames the president’s policy in the right perspective.

Experts say air strikes on oil fields and refineries have reduced Islamic State earnings. “I think it’s unfair to refer to Islam, and it’s totally inappropriate to think of it as a state – so anything calling it the “Islamic State” is wrong”, he said.

What we do know is who they may be: they are the same names that were quite prominent in the market in September when Glencore had its first, and certainly not last, near death experience: the Glencores, the Vitols, the Trafiguras, the Nobels, the Mercurias of the world. In the context of state failure and conflict between rival paramilitaries, variously backed by external powers, the forces of violence and destruction will drive the antagonists to ever greater atrocities.

Experts believe more than 3,000 Yazidi women are held by Islamic State. Bin Laden attracted the youth of the Middle East by telling them that violence was the way to fight the West and to force Israel to accommodate with the Palestinians.

VOA Central News Writer Smita Nordwall wrote this story. Christopher Jones-Cruise adapted it into VOA Learning English. Kathleen Struck was the editor.