A brief history of ISIS

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Publicado 2014-06-25
ISIS used to be part of Al Qaeda in Iraq, but they were too extreme even for them. Here's what you need to know.

Warning: this video contains violent footage.

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Todos los comentarios (21)
  • @CraigThePoet
    I definitely wasn't ready to see the severed head.
  • @epicengies4342
    It's good to hear something about Iraq told by a neutral party rather than a bigoted one.
  • @NeonLeonNoel
    Damn. I really wish I knew more about the Middle East.
  • @LA2Alaska
    Great explanation for such a complex topic.
  • @ssjL3g3nd
    Decent video, but some of your information is off. Particularly a couple of the maps you used to depict ISIS influence and disposition in Iraq. You're map showed a high amount of ISIS activity in the Northern, mountainous region of Iraq, which is controlled by the Kurds. Al-Albar province in the Western and South Western area of Iraq is where most of these insurgents cluster, and conduct operations.
  • @fauzijumat999
    I'm a muslim and i'm a sunni and i have nothing against shia but just because of some arrogant shia and sunni this two groups the world is in war. I am sorry world that some of my brothers and sister did something very wrong like suicide bomings,killing the inncocents in Paris,Indonesia,Iraq and etc i'm sorry that you have lost your bestfriend,your husband,your father or your uncle during the war they have died for their country without them i think USA had been compromised and had been attacked so on behalf of them i will like to say sorry...but i'm still waiting for an apology from some of you cuz some of you are racist abusing my brothers and sister that had nothing to do with ISIS,Al-qaeda and etc i'm still waiting
  • @JessFromMead
    Man, can you do a "not so brief history lesson?"
  • @bananiel
    this reminds me of my mother reading bedtime stories to me. good job
  • @Aritul
    The last line of this video was powerful.
  • @katepearce724
    Thanks for your video, it certainly explains a lot of things - found it useful to know as I'm always confused about what ISIS actually are. :)
  • @TG_Santos
    I am so glad I found your channel today. I subscribed after the fist video. I'm learning a lot. Thank you!
  • @penderworth
    Usually the headline footage would be of a newspaper. Since this is the 21st century, it might as well by a computer screen, which is traditionally accompanied by those wonderful squiggly lines.
  • @ss.7361
    Thank you for this video, this is a great explanation without hearing the liberal or conservative bias on either side. I just want the facts
  • At about 1:15, I'm pretty sure that when Al Qaeda in Iraq was pushed out of Iraq into Syria, Al Qaeda in Iraq attacked the U.S. "trained" Syrian rebels and the Kurds, not the Assad regime. It was the whole "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing.