Two can play at the game – US pounds ISIS oil wells and ISIS sets free 150 prisoners

The strategy of US and allies to pound oil wells that account for the major source of finance of the ISIS seems to have hit the mark and terrorists who are fighting for ISIS in Syria are believed to have freed 150 prisoners in the group's de facto capital Raqqa dailymail.co.uk.
The air forces of Saudi Arabia and UAE have carried out a majority of the coordinated attacks by targeting 12 'modular oil refineries' in eastern Syria that have the ability to extract thousands of barrels of crude oil a day.
Much of this oil is smuggled into neighboring oil-producing regions in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan at reduced price and then sold of mainstream markets. In the process, ISIS has become the wealthiest terror group of all time with an estimated $1billion in cash reserves.
The ISIS fighters who set the prisoners free want to prevail upon America and its Arab allies to end the campaign of airstrikes. The desperate militants have reportedly released the captives overnight in the belief that the move could encourage an anti-ISIS coalition of nations to focus their raids away from Raqqa. The 150 prisoners who have been set free by the group are all believed to have been arrested in recent weeks and could be locals accused of committing minor crimes.
Incidentally, Raqqa is the stronghold of ISIS and is widely thought to be a base for the group's senior figures - including leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - and where British hostages Alan Henning and John Cantlie are being held. The news comes as a fresh wave of airstrikes from the United States and its Arab allies hit ISIS oil refineries overnight, killing at least 14 militants and striking at the heart of the terror group's funding.
ISIS generates up to $2million a day from the sale of oil, employing highly trained engineers to extract thousands of barrels a day from the vast swaths of Syria and Iraq under the terror group's control.

UAE and Egypt carry out air-strikes against IS militants in Libya

The US government has confirmed that the UAE and Egypt have carried out bombing of the Islamist militia in Libya nzherald.co.nz – this has taken Washington by surprise even as turmoil in the North African country deepens with the Islamists naming a rival premier.
It is now confirmed that the UAE and Egypt were behind last week's two deadly night raids on Islamist positions near Tripoli airport. It is understood that the UAE - which has spent billions on US-made warplanes and advanced weaponry – had provided the military aircraft, aerial refueling planes and crews to bomb Libya, while Cairo offered access to its air bases.
The first of the strikes had targeted militia locations in Tripoli, including a small weapons depot while the second round was to the south of the city – it targeted rocket launchers, military vehicles and a warehouse. The strikes might have been a bid to prevent the capture of the airport by the militants.
These air strikes signal a step towards direct action taken by regional Arab states that had, earlier, been waging proxy wars in Libya, Syria and Iraq in a struggle for power and influence.
Incidentally, the Islamist forces in Libya had alleged at the weekend that Egypt and the UAE were behind the air raids and this appears to have been proved by the confirmation.
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