MOSUL • ISIS' outsize ambitions and its robust bureaucracy hinged on its ability to generate funds. The papers provide further evidence that the tax revenue ISIS earned far outstripped income from oil sales.
It was daily commerce and agriculture - not petroleum - that powered the economy of the caliphate.
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