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Heroin trade funds Islamic State militants

With coalition airstrikes against Islamic State militants first targeting oil fields with the aim of disrupting their revenue stream, where else will the group's money come from? Drugs, according to Tom Keatinge from the Royal United Services Institute think tank in the UK. So how influential is the group in Afghanistan, the world's biggest opium producer?

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