PETALING JAYA: Forget ideals and ideology, the militant movement in Iraq and Syria is all about money. Sitting on a pile of more than US$2bil (RM6.35bil) and having seized one of the largest oil wells in the region, the militants are even selling oil to the very people that they are fighting against.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), now renamed the Islamic State, has become the most affluent militant group in the world.
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