Life in ISIS: Bad pay, annoying vacation requests

Published August 30, 2016 4:10pm ET



Fighters for the Islamic State are sick of getting paid so little and face questions about the way they fill out requests for vacation days, newly leaked documents reveal.

The documents, taken from the corpse of Abu Ali al-Iraqi, an Islamic State commander killed in July, include details ranging from the militant organization’s pay scale to some of the difficulties Islamic State administrators face in their efforts to deal with highly variable prison populations.

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