ISIS slashes salaries of its fighters
January 19, 2016  18:26
Cost cutting in ISIS as well.

The dreaded Islamic State (IS) terror group has decided to cut the salaries of its fighters by half blaming the "exceptional circumstances', a sign of worsening financial situation of the outfit.

The group's Bayt al-Mal, the Treasury Ministry, has decided to cut the salaries of its fighters in half due to the "exceptional circumstances' the IS has been witnessing, The Jerusalem Post said, citing new documents released last month.

The terror group reportedly did not explain exactly what those "exceptional circumstances' were.Airstrike destroyed "millions'However, the IS decision came amid reports of a U.S.-led coalition airstrike this month that destroyed a cash storage facility of the group in Iraq's Mosul city where it had stored "millions' to pay its operatives and for ongoing operations. Millions of dollars were burned in the strike. "ISIS' financial situation today is even worse than it was in December when the document came out,' the paper said.


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