The Islamic State jihadist group's income from taxes, confiscations and extortion rival the terrorists' profit from oil trade, media reported Tuesday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) While the militant group's income from its oil trade has been given much attention, Russian, French and United States airstrikes cannot undermine the militants' local income extracted ...

Russia says both the US and Turkey failed to inform the UN Security Council (UNSC) about the illegal smuggling of oil from the territories held by Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Syria and Iraq although they were obliged to do so under international law. Russias Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Vitaly Churkin made the remark in an interview with ...

Irans Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaie said earlier that Tehran was ready to provide Ankara with necessary information regarding Daesh oil trade with Turkey. Iranian military advisors inSyria have taken photos and filmed all the routes used byISIL's oil tankers toTurkey. If the Turkish authorities are unaware ofthe Daesh oil sales intheir ...

Russia has blamed the US for attempts to cover up the smuggling of illicit oil into Turkey from the Syrian territory under the occupation of Daesh terrorists after Washington'sclaims that the amount of such oil transfers is negligible. "When US officials say they don't see how the terrorists' oil is smuggled to Turkey... it smells badly of a desire ...

Irans Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaie has said that Tehran was ready to provide the Turkish government with necessary information regarding Daesh and their oil trade, Iranian media reported. "Iranian military advisors inSyria have taken photos and filmed all the routes used byISIL's oil tankers toTurkey. If the Turkish authorities are ...

Russia says it is in possession of evidence that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are involved in the illegal smuggling of oil from territories held by Daesh Takfiri terrorists in Syria and Iraq. Officials of the Russian Defense Ministry made the announcement during a briefing in the capital of Moscow on Wednesday showing satellite ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is prepared to step down if accusations by Russia that Ankara has traded oil with the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group are proved right. The Turkish state-run Anatolia news agency quoted Erdogan as making the remark on the sidelines of a United Nations (UN)s climate conference in the French capital,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has received further information confirming that the Daesh Takfiri terrorists conduct their oil sales via Turkey. At the moment we have received additional information confirming that that oil from the deposits controlled by Daesh militants enters Turkish territory on industrial scale,said Putin on the sidelines ...