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ISIS is weaker today says Gentiloni

'Chance of retaking Raqqa'

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(ANSA) - Rome, April 13 - ISIS's funding capacity has been cut and fighters' pay has fallen by 40%, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Wednesday.
    He said all of the militant group's main sources of cash - bank deposits, trafficking in art works and crude-oil smuggling - had been reduced.
    Speaking in the Senate, Gentiloni added that between 30% and 40% of the territory conquered by ISIS had been reclaimed by the international coalition.
    He said there was a chance "in the coming months of regaining control of nerve centres like Raqqa".
   

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