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.
Has the media succeeded or failed in covering the Islamic State?
“Whether they like it or not, we will enforce Sharia in this land.”
In the final part of The Islamic State, we journey from Raqqa, Syria to the border with Iraq where fighters are bulldozing the boundary.
Convert, pay a tax or face death.
Christians are entitled to live in the Islamic State — with certain provisions.
