The Islamic state being dubbed isis made it really god damned motherfucking difficult to do research into the Egyptian goddess Isis, and even the birds called the Ibis for a while. Half the time google would be like did you mean to search for the terrorists.

The youtube algorithm didnt like this video at all lol. I'm glad that you still push content that people need, even when our censorship overlords dont like it (:

I flew over Mosul a few months after the city was retaken. Even from the sky you could see it was completely ruined. Those poor people deserve peace after so many years of shear brutality.

Thank you Simon and Mr. Moloney for explaining all of this. The research alone was brutal.

Finally no cheesy stock footage! Happy you’ve brought back legitimate historical footage even if you need to put a warning on the video

ISIS: "let's return our technology to c.600AD!" How? "AK47s (c.1949) and social media (c.2004)"

Leaving a comment so KZfaq understands that there is nothing wrong with this video at all.

Simon and all the members of your team: thank you and I owe you a beer. I'm a history teacher and I'm currently teaching about this group. This will help them immensly! Cheers mates!

Rest in peace to those that passed away. I really hope we defeat IS for good.

I remember watching a documentary about the Kurds fighting Isis and they said they called them Daesh as a disrespect

I worked 15 minutes from the San Bernardino, CA, USA terrorist attack. The craziest part of that attack is it basically occurred at a meeting of office worker municipal employees. Scientists, specialists, and clerical staff were gunned down at their company event. The couple who committed the attack lived in the safe, respectable, higher income city of Redlands. In the west we tend to think of terror attacks occurring in an exotic bazaar in a far off country... There is nowhere safe

I think something you should of mentioned is that ISIS managed to radicalise a 10 year old boy in England, and that boy ended up managing some operations, such as a planned attack on ANZAC day here in Australia, but not just any ANZAC day, the 100th anniversary Edit: I should just clear the air that the kid was not physically a part of the attack, he was communicating with a man who intended to perform the attack

So glad to see Simon still making fantastic, well researched, highly informative content post the fall of TopTenz etc. Thank you, Simon. You really are the very best of KZfaq.

1:00 - Chapter 1 - Rise of the islamic state 6:55 - Chapter 2 - Syria, iraq & full scale war 17:20 - Chapter 3 - Battlefield defeat 25:15 - Chapter 4 - Global infection - Chapter 5 - - Chapter 6 -

"Parasite"...perfect description...i would also call it a "Cancer"

We had ‘former Canadians’ do the same thing. When they tried to come home, they were shocked when told to Ram it! 🇨🇦 Vet

you failed to mention HOW they got so powerful. 1) arms, intelligence and medical aid from Turkey, as well as the ability to use Turkey as a safe haven. 2) US decision not to attack IS if they were fighting against the Syrian army.

I love how their flag looks like something the Bevis and Butthead art department came up with!

I, like many, used to have that mindset of "It'll never effect me". That was until I was ever so nearly in the middle of a terror attack myself. I walked over Westminster Bridge in March 2017, literally just minutes before an attack took place by a car running people over killing several and injuring many. To think that we were so close to potential death, with a real terrorist just a matter of a few hundred meteres away from us killing people, this will haunt me for life. We unfortunately never came to the aid of any of the injured, as we'd just stepped foot into the Westminster Underground station as the attack took place, not realising anything had happened until we stepped foot at our final destination as there's pretty much no Internet at all whilst underground.

One of your best videos, Simon. Thank you for the great content!

Dear KZfaq, why you censor this? This was an amazing upload!

One of the best videos you have made in a long long time. Thank you, I know it must have been a difficult subject to research and produce.

Very informative and educational.

Love the videos you guys make. Thank you Simon and co🙏

"Daesh" roughly translates to "bigot" in Arabic. It actually fits quite well.

Comment for the algorithm! As always, a concise yet thorough analysis, a wonderful overview, and extremely entertaining! Thanks team Whistlerverse, you guys are the best!

Always a delight when I click on a new channel, and your face pops up Simon. I know it means quality writing, editing, hosting, and a ton of interesting information (and or laughs)

Great episode!

This channel is rapidly becoming my favorite channel on this platform. Keep up the good work, Simon and crew!

Brilliant and informative video, expertly told as per usual from Simon.

Well put together and well researched. Thanks.😊

Great eye opening video!

Thank you Simon this is one of the best videos yet!

This is one of my favorite Warographics videos

Insanely good video. Thank you

Great work, glad you put it up despite youtube being youtube

Now they are all throughout Europe just waiting for the nod

Thank you for this

The pronunciations are killing me 😆

This channel is great. Thanks for all your work simon! Please do the battle of Agincourt!

Its awful hearing about all of this, but how they destroyed cultural sites, makes me think a video about ancient cultural buildings were destroyed in modern times could be a good subject.

Great stuff as always

This is the sort of in depth research, and clarity of explanation, that I love about your channels.

Anyone else surprise that Simon released a video where he's more than likely to get death threats for. Fact boi has grown some giant cajones

Excellent work ❤❤

i was waiting for so long to do someone do this content

Thank you Simon for pushing this video through. The youtube algorithm doesn't want us to watch

KZfaq probably won't even pay for the tea your team drank making this video but Thank You!

I was a preteen back in the mid 2010’s, and that was when I really started paying attention to global news. If you weren’t there (although I’m sure pretty much everyone watching this was), it really is hard to overstate how much they absolutely DOMINATED the news at the time. I was never really scared of them; they were literally on the other side of the world (I’m American if you hadn’t already guessed), and what I did hear about them was pretty sanitized, but I have to imagine them receiving SO much attention inadvertently helped them grow.

Thanks for the info Simon.

Yt freaking out on this one 💀 never stop stopping

The destruction of Palmyra breaks my heart. Centuries of history lost to zealotry.

Just wanted to say, this has been on the top of my feed since you posted. Just surprised with it having the violence and mature content warning

Thanks for this

My dad once told me that ISIS is so extreme that even the Taliban are afraid of them, I don't know if that's true though

Could you do an ‘Into the Shadows’ video on the so-called ‘ISIS brides’? I genuinely don’t understand what’s happening there. Like, I can kind of see why guys might be into the whole rebel macho army stuff, but how on earth did they lure in women to such a conservative regime where there’re just wives. It doesn’t make sense to me, so I’d like to see an analysis of it.

Thanks!

Thank you for your work

Never see this in the news. Thanks Simon for another deep dive quality video

Just discovered your Channel. Wow, what a marvellous Host you are. Totally intriguing. Nice Style of Editing. Very entertaining. Looking forward to more Content from you. 👌🏻

2:32 Jihad isn’t an ideology, salafism is an ideology. Jihad is a tenant of Islam. That encourages the spread of Islam like missionary work. The Quranic interpretation isn’t clear. But violence and conquest was used in the Past and historically by caliphates to spread Islam. Jihad literally means striving, or doing one's utmost in name and will of God(Allah). So feeding the poor or defending the weak. Can be considered Jihad in Islamic interpretation.

Well said.

kind of pathetic that many EU countries let many of those fighters to return

I'm not even Muslim, & even I think it's disgusting how much these assholes misuse, twist, abuse, & defame Classical Islamic names & concepts. My sincerest condolences go out to all of the sane Muslims out there who have to deal with radicalised bullshit & the Western backlash against it every day.

I like this channel. Very much.😊

Great vid keep up the work please

There's TWO ways to deal with "radical" Islam (as If there's any other variety): -- contain it -- irradicate them We failed at both.

How could Islamic State fighters capture Mosul without popular support? Many Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Syria supported the Islamic State. Also, there are Sunni Muslims in Iraq who are guilty of crimes against humanity against their Christian and Yazidi neighbors.

Thanks

Excellent thanks

“Beaten down past the point where they will ever be able to control territory again.” What? Certainly they are in no position launch an offensive now, but back in 2010 I don’t think anyone would have said there was any chance of them taking control of half of Iraq. Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer, and should another catastrophic civil war break out in an area they hold a strong presence, there is every chance they will be able to take advantage of the chaos. They remain a potential future threat - and not only in the form isolated attacks.

Hey KZfaq restricted this. Love the videos simon!!!

Finally. The question I had always

Just when I think I’ve found a new KZfaq channel it’s just Simon 😂

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Hello, I'm a researcher who for years studied and covered the war in Syria (and Iraq to a lesser degree). Your video is a great summary and covers many of the core points very eloquently! One critique I have however is your labelling of the SDF as a Kurdish force. While from 2012-15 the YPG was almost entirely Kurdish and simply allied to some Arab groups, already by 2016 about half of the newly founded Syrian Democratic Forces were Arab, Turkmen, Armenian or Assyrian. By 2017-2018 over half of the SDF was Arab, and both the military and political leadership committees were minority Kurdish (Arabs being the most represented demographic followed by Kurds, then Assyrians). While it is difficult to cover all of this in a video of this scope, labelling them Kurdish falls into an issue that western media has had for a long time, which enforces the idea that in the Middle East, multi-ethnic multi-religious and multi-cultural societies and fighting forces aren't possible or haven't been successful. While the SDF is far from perfect, and the Autonomous Zone they control has issues, if nothing else they stand as a clear example that Christians and Muslims (Sunni and Shia) are able to effectively fight and rebuild the shattered society of Syria, and that gender equality can exist under Islam and Christianity even surrounded by fundamentalist movements. My suggestion would be to instead separate the YPG and the SDF similiarly to how you explained the different eras of Daesh. It is accurate to describe the YPG as Kurdish forces, but for example the prison escape you mentioned wasn't in Kurdish territory. It was in an Arab majority region, with a major Kurdish minority, as well as notable populations of Armenians and Assyrians. This is why the SDF is important to introduce to a western audience, to help convey just how ethnically and religiously diverse Syria is.

Great, now we’re all investigated. Thanks Simon.

anytime a video is restricted, I know the video will be good.

The city of Mosul was in much better shape when my unit left it. It shows how moronic it is to have public opinion polls dictate military strategy...yet again. 🙄

DEAR KZfaq WANABE OVERLORDS, I'M 38 AND WANT TO WATCH WHAT I SEE FIT!!!! WITH THIS SAID RESPECTFULLY FOOOOK OFF

This video dug up some rough memories...

Great video!

As a Muslim who was born here in America it’s very hard and confusing to understand the politics in the Middle East, yes terrorists are horrible and I think should be killed if caught but I truly feel for the innocent people and especially children caught up in this that end up growing up to hate anyone that’s not Muslim since that isn’t true for me and many other Muslims sucks to see honestly but I’ve been doing research trying to dive deep into all the conflicts in the Middle East from Israel to Afghanistan to Libya

Just feeding the algorithm monster. 👍

Only 143k views. The entire work should be watching this.

So many key concepts.

Why didn't you mention the Battle of Kobani, a captivating battle that kept focused and routing for the Kurdish.

Was part of the D-ISIS campaign in Raqqa... Would be interested in seeing a video on the "Beatles". And you really need to do In to the Shadows on Al-Rasheed Stadium if you haven't.

You forgot to mention the attacks in Mozambique in Cabo Delgado a while back😔

How FU is Islam? They can't even agree between themselves that Sunni and Shia worship the same deity. Such religious fundamentalism was last seen in Christendom during the Spanish Inquisition. This shows how far Islam is behind modern times

Simons british english was extra thick in this one. Had to rewind a few times 😂

Is it bad I find the fact that ISIS never controlled Egypt hilariously ironic?

Seeing Simon after a long time, Casual Criminal I think.

Could you do a video on the troubles?

As of June 2023, the U.S. Department of State found "worrisome signs" that ISIS "core leadership is strengthening control over its global network of affiliates," and that affiliates are "pooling resources" and "growing capabilities", despite a "series of key losses".

What I never quite understood, is kids from developed countries joining. I remember this girl from Germany, her father was well off, but she felt the urge to join Is Is.

Simon Whistler killing it again

Neat.

woooaahh fact boy came out gunning in that intro. scared the hell outta me

Where's the content that needed a warning? There's nothing that needs a warning about this. It's facts.