Erika Solomon, Robin Kwong and Steven Bernard/ cross posting https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/erika-solomon-robin-kwong-and-steven-bernard/rss en ISIS War Economy Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Erika Solomon, Robin Kwong and Steven Bernard https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2015/11/16/inside-isis-inc-the-journey-of-a-barrel-of-oil https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2015/11/16/inside-isis-inc-the-journey-of-a-barrel-of-oil ISIS controls most of Syria’s oil fields and crude is the militant group’s biggest single source of revenue. Here we follow the progress of a barrel of oil from extraction to end user to see how the ISIS production system works, who is making money from it, and why it is proving so challenging to disrupt.