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The Hunt: U.S.-led coalition hinders ISIL funding

WASHINGTON — ISIL, which in the past year has committed some of the most heinous terror acts in modern history, was reportedly worth close to $2 billion a year ago. It all began after the terror group launched a murderous rampage through Iraq and Syria, robbing banks, taking over oil and gas facilities and kidnapping people along the way. WTOP’s National Security Correspondent JJ Green spoke with Daniel Glaser, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing at the Treasury Department.

WTOP photo tour: Historic nuclear power plant at Fort Belvoir to be dismantled

The red button was always there — just in case. Most people never knew the United States' first nuclear power reactor to provide sustained electricity to a commercial power grid was — and is — on the grounds of Fort Belvoir, the U.S. Army installation in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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