The Price of Loyalty: Daesh Mercenaries Desert Due to Wage Cuts
Daesh militants have started to desert due to a reduction in their wages.
These desertions apparently confirm that the Daesh militants are mostly motivated by greed and not by religious fervor, Alsumaria remarks.
Earlier the UK-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reported resentment among Syrian Daesh fighters, who believed their pay was being cut to raise the wages of Arab and foreign fighters. However, according a leaked Daesh document, a pay cut has in fact been imposed on all of the movement’s rank and file fighters.
The pay cut was apparently authorized by the so-called 'treasury' of Daesh due to 'exceptional circumstances' as the terrorist movement has apparently begun to feel the strain of being engaged in protracted fighting on multiple battlefronts.