Air strikes hit makeshift refineries in Syria: monitoring group says

Reuters, Sep 28, 2014 – Air strikes believed to have been carried out by U.S.-led forces hit three makeshift oil refineries in Syria`s Raqqa province early on Sunday as part of an assault to weaken Islamic State (IS) militants, a monitoring group said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attacks occurred shortly after midnight, adding that they also hit a plastic factory.
Islamic State fighters have control over oil produced in eastern Syria and have set up small, makeshift refineries to distil the crude into fuel, one of their main sources of income.
“These so-called refineries are not a real target and they do not weaken the Islamic State as they do not have any financial value for them,” Rami Abdelrahman of the Observatory told Reuters.