US-led raids hit IS-controlled refineries in Syria: Pentagon

This September 26, 2014 image from video provided by the US Navy shows an EA-6B Prowler launching from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) supporting strike, surveillance and reconnaissance missions over Iraq. US-led warplanes kept up strikes on oil sites funding the Islamic State group on September 28, as Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate threatened reprisals after a key operative was reported killed.
The coalition raids destroyed three makeshift oil refineries in jihadist-controlled territory in Syria, intensifying efforts to deny IS funding after a wave of strikes on its oil infrastructure on September 25. IS controls a swathe of territory straddling northwestern Iraq and eastern Syria, that includes most of Syria’s main oil fields and which the jihadists have sought to exploit through improvised refining and smuggling. AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / US NAVY