An exclusive ground-level look at the illicit oil trade that has made ISIS the world’s richest extremist group. BuzzFeed News’ Mike Giglio reports from the Turkey–Syria border.posted on Nov. 3, 2014, at 7:39 a.m. Mike Giglio BuzzFeed Staff Photograph by Yusuf Sayman for BuzzFeed News BESASLAN, Turkey — This town on the Turkish-Syrian border is covered…
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