assyrian human rights network, says he expects a message from isis soon threatening those prisoners. the recent drop in oil prices has cut into one of isis main sources of funding. but it s not just black market oil sales that finance the terror group. senior correspondent from lion. reporter: oil, trafficking, trading antiquities, all allegedly sources of isis funding. how much are they making? they re believed to be the best resourced terror organization in the world. after months of coalition air strikes, how isis revenue streams holding up? oil was their main source of funding. and in the summer of 2014 isis made between $2 million and $3 million a day through the sale of smuggled oil. the major refineries have been high-value targets for coalition strikes. activists on the ground tell us isis is increasingly reliant on
all this is reliant on the crucial routes between raqqa and mosul and a clear route to turkey through international markets. this is believed to be via the border gate. while isis may be better funded than any terror group before it it s also the first terror group to tampa to operate as a fighting force and as a civilian administration with six million people living in a territory the size of neighboring jordan. in addition to the tens of thousands of fighters it has to clothe and feed. its outlays are substantial. and the loss of their oil revenue has to hurt. cnn, london. a former jihadi activist who is still in contact with extremists in the middle east says the world may be underestimating the ambitions of isis in libya. ar man dean once infiltrated al qaeda and began working as an
says even more christians have been abducted by isisa the terror group takes more towns and villages in northeastern syria. the assyrian rights network representative says close to 300 people have been kidnappeded and 5,000 have fled their homes. one of his own relatives have been kidnapped. ian lee has been following the developments on the story and joins us live from cairo with the latest. we should note that because of syria s years long civil war and large parts of the country under isis control it is difficult to get a clear picture of what s happening there. help us out. what do we know about the fate of the asyrian christians kidnapped earlier? reporter: that s right. it is hard to get the specific details out of there. we get a lot of it there the rights groups that give us this instructions. we know the attack did take place in the eastern part of syria, along a string of village
the threat can be centrally taking care of it a smaller level. obviously it benefits us all. why will we take care it in the united states if we could have taken care of it outside of the united states? reporter: jarwa damon, cnn. we re also following developments out of afghanistan. the taliban has now claimed responsibility for an explosion outside the rannan embassy in iranian embassy in kabul. we see smoke pouring out of a police vehicle there. a spokesman says a suicidebarrassment blew up a car after crashing into another vehicle. at least one person was killed, and another was injured. just ahead, you are watching cnn newsroom. isis has brought in millions of dollars by selling oil on the black market. that s not the only way they make money. we ll take a closer look at the terror group s finances ahead. drones spotted hovering over paris two nights in a row.