[mattdanger]

NPR's Planet Money recently did an episode that analyzed a 1 month budget from a Syrian province controlled by ISIS. The budget was all in USD and sounded very thorough.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/04/458524627/episo...

[nothrabannosir]

That podcast answers a lot of the questions that people have in this thread. Definitely worth listening to.