(AP-Huffington Post) Robert Burns - In an intensifying campaign to squeeze Islamic State oil revenues, U.S. planes on Sunday destroyed 116 oil trucks in Syria that were a key part of a smuggling operation that brings the group an estimated $1.4 million a day. U.S. officials previously had said they avoided attacking fuel trucks out of concern for civilian casualties. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said that in an effort to warn the truck drivers to leave the area in advance of Sunday's attacks, leaflets were dropped and coalition planes conducted low-level "show of force" flights over the site.
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