Tag: Syria
First solar powered hospital opened in Syria
Solar powered hospital can run on renewable energy for 24 hours This week, the war-torn country of Syria will open a solar powered hospital which will have uninterrupted power. Project designers are hopeful the facility can save lives and be repeated across the country. In the past six years as a volatile civil war raged […]
Oil prices near one-month high following US missile strike in Syria
Oil prices rise on concerns Middle East conflict could spread Oil prices rose in trading on Friday to near one-month highs after the United States fired missiles at a Syrian government air base. Global markets reacted on concerns about increasing conflict in the Middle East. The Trump administration’s decision to attack the air base is the […]
Islamic State caliphate shrinks 16% in 2016 – IHS Markit
Islamic State’s supply of foreign fighters dries up as key territory lost LONDON – Territory controlled by the Islamic State shrunk by 16 percent in the first nine months of 2016, according to new analysis released today by IHS Markit. In 2015, the Islamic State’s caliphate shrunk from 90,800 km2 to 78,000 km2, a net loss […]
Islamic State ‘caliphate’ shrinks 12% in 2016, oil revenues down – IHS
“For groups like the Islamic State, the battle for hearts and minds is just as important, if not more important, than the military confrontation” Territory controlled by the Islamic State shrunk by 12 per cent in the first six months of 2016, according to new analysis released by IHS Inc. In 2015, the Islamic State’s […]
US airstrikes on ISIS oil facilities squeeze group’s financial power
ISIS oil facilities mainly in Syria targeted by US military WASHINGTON _ A series of U.S. airstrikes in recent months have destroyed “hundreds of millions” of dollars in Islamic State cash as part of a broader campaign aimed at squeezing the extremist group’s financial power, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday. Col. Steve Warren, speaking […]
Airstrikes hurt, but unlikely to halt, ISIS oil smuggling operations
ISIS oil smuggling generate nearly $50M a month BEIRUT _ The United States and Russia are going after the Islamic State group’s oil industry, destroying refineries and hundreds of tanker trucks transporting oil from eastern Syria in a heavy bombardment in recent days aiming to break the extremists’ biggest source of income. The campaign already […]
Russian bombers strike ISIS targets in Syria, including oil refineries, oil trucks
ISIS oil refineries, ammunition depot, explosives factories hit MOSCOW _ Russian strategic bombers struck targets in Syria Thursday in a third straight day of a heavy bombing blitz, military officials said. Russia, which has conducted air campaign in Syria since Sept. 30, sharply raised its intensity this week on President Vladimir Putin’s orders. Putin told […]
US military destroys ISIS oil smuggling fuel trucks in Syria
ISIS oil smuggling brings in $1 million per day WASHINGTON _In a new twist to an intensifying campaign to squeeze Islamic State oil revenues, U.S. warplanes have destroyed 116 oil-hauling trucks in eastern Syria that were a key part of a smuggling operation that brings the group an estimated $1.4 million a day. The strike […]
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