Three weeks of Russian airstrikes have dramatically weakened the ISIL's capacity to raise the funds necessary for its terror operations, in contrast to the US-led air campaign over the past year. US-led airstrikes on the ISIL in Iraq and Syria were ineffective and even allowed the organization to continue to spread its influence, using oil money to finance its expansion ...

"In essence if you remove the funds, you are actually cutting off, slowly but surely, all the limbs of the ISIL."