Increasingly Broke IS Resorts to Fire Sale

With so-called Islamic State (IS) revenue streams drying up as it continues to lose territory in Syria and Iraq, IS is resorting to a fire sale by liquidating whatever marketable products it can, Iraqi prosecutors say. The Iraqi Higher Judicial Council said in a recent report that prosecutors’ interrogations with a group of captured IS members tell of how IS is dumping goods on Iraqi markets in hopes of making quick profits needed to continue military operations. “Confessions of this...

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