Millions of ISIS Cash Destroyed in U.S. Airstrike

Tens of millions of dollars in ISIS cash went up in smoke when one of their banks was hit by an American airstrike, U.S. defense and military officials told NBC News on Monday.

The head-chopping terrorists lost the fortune in an attack that was launched just before dawn Sunday on the ISIS-held Iraqi city of Mosul, the officials said, NBC News reported.

They would neither confirm nor deny reports out of Iraq that innocent civilians were killed or that there guards in the bank at the time of the raid.

But since November, U.S. and Coalition forces have been trying to kill ISIS by going after their main money source — oil smuggling. They have been bombing ISIS-held oil fields and targeting tanker trucks carrying the black gold to Turkey.

In July, NBC News reported that the Islamic fanatics were making three times as much from oil smuggling as U.S. officials previously thought, roughly $8 million to $10 million a month.

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