Daesh cuts fighters' salary in half amid financial hardship

Daesh 'halves salaries for fighters in Raqqa' as US-led coalition air strikes continue to target oil and revenue streams

Daesh has cut its fighters' salaries by 50 per cent in Syria due to "exceptional circumstances" as air strikes continue to target its revenue streams, a document appears to show. 
A new document released by Bayt Al Mal, the Treasury Ministry of Daesh, in Raqqa, reveals that Daesh has decided to cut the salaries of all its fighters in half due to the "exceptional circumstances" Daesh has been witnessing.
The US-led coalition has been bombing the terrorist group's oil fields, supply lines and cash stores since October as part of Operation Tidal Wave II, and an order released little over a month later appears to show the tactic having an effect.
American officials claimed that operations were already "putting significant damage on Daesh's ability to fund itself" in November and vowed to "step up the attack".
When British planes extended operations from Iraq into Syria last month, Omar oilfields were the first target and Tornadoes and drones returned earlier this month to destroy attempted repairs.
A "cash distribution centre" reportedly used to pay fighters was hit by US planes on 11 January near its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul, with footage showing clouds of money blown into the air

• MENA