Turkish oil trade with ISIS


 * ''Erdogan: "If you allege something you should prove it"
 * ''Russian MoD: "Here's the proof, will you resign now?" (data)

Analysis

 * ISIS Oil, Vijay Prashad, December 3, 2015


 * MSM Claims Assad Funds ISIS – Evidence Claims Otherwise - Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post, December 14, 2015

FSA-ISIS trade

 * Idlib 'on the verge of a catastrophe' as regime severs vital supply route, and with it, cuts off fuel access - SYRIA:direct, February 3, 2016
 * ''Idlib province, controlled almost entirely by a coalition of Islamist rebels led by Jabhat a-Nusra, is dependent on fuel-driven generators. A fuel crisis would cause a humanitarian and military “catastrophe” in the northwestern province, opposition journalists tell Syria Direct.
 * ''Prior to the diesel-for-food agreement last June, Idlib province experienced a fuel shortage that led residents to demand that rebel factions open trade routes with IS, pro-opposition All4Syria reported in early June. Wednesday’s regime gains north of Aleppo cut off these very trade routes, meaning that any fuel that reaches Idlib province will have to come through Turkey via the Bab al-Hawa crossing in northern Idlib.
 * ''Reliance on Turkey has its drawbacks, says one local journalist. “Turkey did not allow fuel to enter Idlib province during last year’s fuel crisis,” says Hani al-Halal, a correspondent with the opposition Shaam News Network in Idlib. The province’s residents have few options other than to hope that “one of the Gulf countries supportive of the opposition will step up to provide fuel.”
 * ''But if the regime continues its advance and captures Bab al-Hawa, an endgame described to Syria Direct by pro-regime correspondent al-Basha, Idlib would be totally isolated from the Turkish border. “The cutting off of fuel will obviously have a dire impact on rebel militias [in Idlib] who need to operate a large number of military vehicles,” said Muhammad Najm a-Din, a correspondent with pro-opposition Smart News currently in the northern Aleppo countryside.