VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
&gt; They control large areas of land, have their own oil fields, and receive direct support from many countries in the region. Namely from rich oil-producing countries.<p>That&#x27;s one of those things where we could make a fairly immediate change in policy, it would come at a cost, definitely but it would change the situation for IS for the worse far more effectively than any number of bombs dropped would do.