Finance ministers gathered at the United Nations said that, with millions of dollars coming from illegal oil sales, it was time to target Islamic State funding. “So far, ISIL has reaped an estimated $500 million dollars from black market oil and millions more from the people it brutalizes and extorts,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said in a statement from the United Nations. The Islamic State jihadist organization is also referred to as Daesh and by the acronyms ISIL and ISIS. The U.S. State Department in September offered a $5 million reward for justice for tips that would help thwart the sale of oil and […]