Iraq/Syria/Islamic State: Obama and Putin Agree on Bombing Islamic State's Oil Pipeline

Nov 19, 2015 | Grant Smith, Ilya Arkhipov, and Henry Meyer, Bloomberg
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When Vladimir Putin met with Barack Obama in Turkey on Sunday to discuss the terrorist attacks in Paris, he brought along some photos. The satellite images showed rows of trucks laden with Islamic State oil stretching into the Syrian horizon, a person familiar with matter said. Putin’s point was that U.S. bombing alone can’t eliminate the vast smuggling network that provides much of the extremist group’s funding.