Islamic State finances can withstand oil losses
Coalition airstrikes on the group's oil facilities have intensified -- but the impact on its finances may be limited
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- Financial self-sufficiency
- Exploiting the Iraqi state
- Syrian oil windfall
- Production setbacks
- Varying estimates
- Oil buyers
- Gas trade with regime
- Adapting to lost oil revenue
- Taxation and territory
- Uprising risk?
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_350.jpg "A makeshift oil refinery near Raqqa, Syria (Reuters/Hamid Khatib)")