A senior European Union official has revealed that some EU member states have purchased oil from ISIS Takfiri militants despite their rhetoric against the group. <\/p>\n
In a briefing to the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, EU Ambassador to Iraq Jana Hybaskova said some European countries have purchased crude from the ISIS. <\/p>\n
She, however, refused to disclose any names despite pressure by some Parliament members to do so. <\/p>\n
The EU official also warned against any support by the West for separatist Kurdish groups who, she said, would destabilize the Middle East. <\/p>\n
Earlier reports accused Turkey of buying and transporting oil from both the ISIS and Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. According to the reports, Western intelligence agencies could track ISIS oil shipments as they moved across Iraq and Turkey. <\/p>\n
ISIS reportedly controls eleven oil fields in northern Iraq as well as Syria’s Raqqa province. <\/p>\n
US intelligence officials estimate that the Takfiri militants earn more than USD 3 million a day from oil profit, theft, human trafficking and ransom. They say the militants sell oil and other products via established networks in Turkey, Jordan and Iraq’s Kurdistan region. \ufeffTurkey has denied reports of involvement in ISIS’s oil smuggling operations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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