Basic Info

First Air: August 13, 2014

Status: Returning Series

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Last Episode

Name: Bulldozing the Border Between Iraq and Syria

Season: 1, Episode: 5

Air Date: 2014-08-13

Runtime: 10 min

On August 8, nearly three years after the United States pulled out of Iraq, President Barack Obama ordered airstrikes to commence on Islamic State positions in northern Iraq, as the group’s fighters advanced towards the Kurdish capital of Erbil. For six weeks prior to the strikes the Islamic State made stunning gains within Iraq, effectively dismantling the border with Syria and defeating the Iraqi army with little in the way to stop them.

Videos

The Islamic State (Full Length) (YouTube)

VICE News: The Islamic State

2014 1 seasons 5 episodes

Overview

With unprecedented and exclusive access, VICE News journalist and filmmaker Medyan Dairieh spent three weeks filming alone inside the self-proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State. The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced their intention to reestablish the caliphate and declared their leader, the shadowy Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.