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Islamic State (IS) is running online casinos to compensate for financial setbacks driven by battlefield losses, Russia’s top diplomat at the United Nations has said.

Illicit oil trafficking and extortion have until recently been Islamic State’s main sources of revenue. IS “has been forced to adapt” to military defeats and continues to pose an evolving threat, the UN’s counterterrorism office reported at the Security Council.

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