Private donors From The Gulf Oil States Continue To Help Bankroll The Islamic State

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Patrick Cockburn, The Independent: Private donors from Gulf oil states helping to bankroll salaries of up to 100,000 Isis fighters

Exclusive: In Irbil, Patrick Cockburn hears from a Kurdish official how Gulf oil cash is shoring up the terrorists, and why this, with a divided enemy, suggests a long war ahead

Islamic State is still receiving significant financial support from Arab sympathisers outside Iraq and Syria, enabling it to expand its war effort, says a senior Kurdish official.

The US has being trying to stop such private donors in the Gulf oil states sending to Islamic State (Isis) funds that help pay the salaries of fighters who may number well over 100,000.

WNU Editor: The Islamic State also has other sources of income to sustain its war effort .... How ISIS is funded by black-market oil trading, illegal drugs and internet cafes (Daily Mail)