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Operations against IS militants cost US almost $3 billion

12.06.2015, 10:48
The U.S. military operations targeting Islamic State militants have already cost $2.7 billion, RBC reports referring to AP.

Operations against IS militants cost US almost $3 billion
YEREVAN, June 12. /ARKA/. The U.S. military operations targeting Islamic State militants have already cost $2.7 billion, RBC reports referring to AP.

Per day cost of the operations is $9 million, most of it spent on aviation.

In mid-May Washington reported the killing of one of the ISIS key figures, Abu Sayyaf who was dealing with supplies of oil and gas from the captured fields and with finances. Later Iraq said Islamic State's second-in-command Abu Alaa al-Afari was killed in air strike.  –0—