Wed Apr 27, 2016 16:53:28
The US-led coalition said has carried out 20 raids on Daesh cash depots including a house where some $150 million was stashed away.
U.S. Air Force Major General Peter Gersten deputy commander for operations and intelligence for the U.S.-led coalition
Air strikes have blown up $800 million of ISIS cash as the terror group's wealth reduction spark a huge rise in defections, U.S. General Claims.
The figures were revealed by U.S. Air Force Major General Peter Gersten deputy commander for operations and intelligence for the U.S.-led coalition, who said the terror group's declining finances had contributed to a rise in defections and a fall in new recruits.
"The number of ISIS (Islamic State, ISIL, IS and Daesh) foreign fighters joining ISIS in Iraq and Syria has decreased sharply in the past year to about 200 a month from between 1,500 and 2,000, he added."
Earlier this month, the US State Department said the number of ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria was lower than at any time in the past two years.
Gersten said one of the biggest blows to the terrorist cash hoard came with a strike on a facility in Mosul on April 5 which the United States believed to contain about $150million.
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