United States Targeting ISIS Oil Reserves

Oil production is of the ISIS’s main sources of revenues, with the group now controlling about 60 percent of Syria’s crude production and 10 percent of Iraq’s crude production.

The US military has released new videos showcasing the anti-ISIS coalition’s latest airstrikes against ISIS oil trucks. The strikes made use of both precision-guided bombs and cannon fire from low-flying aircraft to destroy the targets..

United States of America pilots are accelerating attacks on ISIS oil reserves.

The planes dropped leaflets warning the drivers to “run immediately or you will be killed”, according to the officials, adding that similar leaflets were dropped during USA airstrikes last week that destroyed 116 oil tanker trucks.

On Sunday, US-led coalition forces struck five ISIS positions in Syria and 11 positions in Iraq. According to the statement from the Combined Joint Task Force responsible for carrying out operations against ISIS, coalition forces carried out a series of heavy strikes over the past two days.

On Friday, the Russian defense minister said, the Russian air strikes destroyed fifteen oil refinery or oil storage facilities along with 525 oil trucks.

The US carried out its first strike against ISIS’ oil trucks on November 16.

Daesh is suspected to earn upwards of $40 million a month from illegally exporting crude oil. Army Col. Steve Warren, a US military spokesman in Baghdad, said in an email exchange that the vehicles were oil tanker trucks and that the attack was part of the broader oil targeting campaign.