Captured: The moment an ISIS oil plant is reduced to rubble in jet strike

Coalition forces target Syrian plant to batter terror group's funding.

Coalition air strike targets terrorist oil operations

THIS is the moment a Coalition air strike destroys a gas and oil operation being used to fund ISIS terror attacks across the world. Dramatic footage shows the plant, near Dayr Az Zawr, Syria being reduced to rubble.

A US F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter plane

The strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the effort to eliminate the terrorist group and the threat they pose to Iraq, Syria, and the wider international community.
US officials estimate the extremist group was earning up to £25m a month from oil last year, making it one of the group’s top revenue sources.

The strike rates

But in the last few months, the US says, that has changed. A redoubling of efforts by the anti-ISIS coalition to hit the extremist’s oil infrastructure have reduced the estimated production by nearly a third, driven away the miles-long convoys of oil trucks and dealt a severe blow to the groups’s finances.

ISIS are paying the price for their attacks around the world

 The coalition’s Operation Tidal Wave II campaign against the group’s oil industry, launched on October 21 last year, had carried out more than 90 strikes by early February – nearly as many in three and a half months as it carried out in more than a year of bombing previously.


As of mid-January, the strikes were estimated to have cut daily oil production from 45,000 barrels before the campaign began to 34,000, according to US Colonel Steve Warren of OIR.

 “We look at these oil strikes really the way a boxer strikes his opponent in the midsection  it may not create a knockout, but over time it will serve to weaken and eventually cripple them,” said Col Warren.