ISIS Fund Will Reduced Without New Territory

ISIS Fund Will Reduced Without New Territory

Sources of funding Islamic State or ISIS will be reduced if the extremist group was not able to seize new territory.

Map territory ISIS per January 15, 2015 as reported by the Institute for the Study of War, while the Organization of the Financial Action Task Force report the sources of funding will be reduced if the ISIS ISIS could not develop the territory.

Map territory ISIS per January 15, 2015 as reported by the Institute for the Study of War, while the Organization of the Financial Action Task Force report the sources of funding will be reduced if the ISIS ISIS could not develop the territory.

According to a new report by a French group that studies terrorism financing, sources of funding Islamic State or ISIS will be reduced if the extremist group was not able to seize new territory.

The report by the Financial Action Task Force was also warned that there is still much to be done globally to cut off the flow of current financial ISIS, which controls a wide area in Iraq and Syria.

Sunni Muslim extremist group that "gets most of its revenue through criminal activities and extortion in the area in which the group operates," according to a report released Friday.

The extremist group has funded activities with the brutal seize oil fields, robbing banks, extort money from farmers, kidnapping for ransom, and accept donations from strangers.

ISIS Attack Christian Village in Syria, kidnapped 220 People

At least 220 ethnic Assyrian Christians kidnapped in recent days in northeastern Syria, according to a human rights organization in the UK, following an attack by militants dozens of ISIS.

A church in the village of Abu Tina, northern Syria newly captured by militants ISIS (25/2).

A church in the village of Abu Tina, northern Syria newly captured by militants ISIS (25/2).

Rami Abdurrahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told VOA ISIS militants have attacked 11 ethnic Assyrian villages in the province of al-Hasakah and abducted 220 people. He said the men were taken and held hostage in the mountains Abd al-PADU.

Erica Hunter, an expert on Christianity in the Middle East at the University of London, said he was not optimistic about the fate of hundreds of people.

"I'm sure ISIS will kill the young men, as they had done before, especially if the young men had been involved in the militia. There have been many Christians who joined the Kurdish forces. While the women will end up just like during the Roman empire which traded as a concubine, "he said.

Last month, 20 people were minority Coptic Christians of Egypt killed by ISIS in Libya.

Christian warriors on guard in Tel Tamr, Syria (photo: dock). Some residents Assyrians joined the Kurdish militia against ISIS.

Christian warriors on guard in Tel Tamr, Syria (photo: dock). Some residents Assyrians joined the Kurdish militia against ISIS.

Hunter said most people had joined the Assyrian ethnic Kurdish militia, took up arms to defend their territory from ISIS.

"Not all of the Assyrians have joined the Kurds, but there are a number of groups that have joined because they saw the Kurds do not carry out attacks and ethnic cleansing as did the current ISIS, a crime against humanity on a very large scale," added Hunter.

Before the war broke out in Syria, Christians constitute about 10 percent of the country's population. Assyrian Christians, who numbered approximately 40,000, regard themselves as the last indigenous groups in Syria and Iraq.

Madawi Al-Rasheed, professor of Middle East issues at the University of London School of Economics, said the Assyrian Christians have long been suppressed. He said, people were not able to protect themselves.

He added ISIS militants have often targeted minority groups in Iraq and Syria, but often let Christians.

"ISIS has a program of ethnic cleansing to eliminate diversity so that everything is homogeneous. Thus, minorities were expelled from the territories of power ISIS, "said Madawi.

Approximately 1,000 local Assyrian family is thought to have fled after the kidnapping this week. VOA