Filmmaker Medyan Dairieh spent three weeks alone, embedded with the Islamic State in June 2014, gaining unprecedented access into the heart of the self-proclaimed caliphate.
For one month, we embedded with the Peshmerga fighters on the Mosul frontline, gaining an insight into the coalition’s faltering war against the Islamic State through the eyes of the Kurdish volunteers bearing the brunt of the fighting.
How do we defeat the Islamic State?
In the second part of our interview, Shane Smith and Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter discuss.
Has the media succeeded or failed in covering the Islamic State?
