Coalition air strikes have not stopped the militant group from earning millions of dollars a week from its Iraqi oil operations.
THE Islamic State has consolidated its grip on oil supplies in Iraq and now presides over a sophisticated smuggling empire with illegal exports going to Turkey, Jordan and Iran, according to smugglers and Iraqi officials.
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