ISIS Gains

Guardian UK: 'It's God's gift.' Isis fills coffers with 'taxed' Iraqi government cash - Isis is growing rich by seizing government wages and ‘taxing’ businesses in the parts of Iraq and Syria it controls, according to a BBC investigation

“There’s a business opportunity, there’s a need for both of them. The Assad regime needs the oil, Isis needs the cash and they’re willing to do business even as they’re fighting each other.”