Al-I'tisam Media Foundation
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Al-I'tisam Media Foundation (Arabic: مؤسسة الإعتصام للإعلام, romanized: Muʼassasat al-Iʻtiṣām lil-Iʻlām) was one of the main media foundations of the Islamic State and the Islamic State of Iraq.[1]
Islamic State of Iraq (until April 8, 2013) Islamic State (from June 29, 2014)مؤسسة الإعتصام للإعلام | |
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| Formation | March 8, 2013 |
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| Dissolved | April 5, 2015 |
| Owner | Islamic State of Iraq (until April 8, 2013) Islamic State (from June 29, 2014) |
History
Al-I'tisam Media Foundation was established in March 8, 2013 under the Islamic State of Iraq after its expansion into Syria during the Syrian civil war.[2][3] It was first announced through Al-Qaeda online forums that the original publications would be produced via the Global Islamic Media Front.[4]
The media foundation primarily focused on Islamic religious topics during its time of establishment, including the fatwas of Ayman al-Zawahiri and the fatwas of Osama Bin Laden after his assassination. After the establishment of a so-called caliphate under the Islamic State, Al-I'tisam Media Foundation started publishing sermons of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, audio addresses from the official Islamic State spokesperson Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, and issues of the English-language magazine Dabiq, French-language magazine Dar al-Islam, and Turkish-language magazine Konstantiniyye.[5]
One of the more religiously motivated videos the media foundation published was the A Window Upon the Land of Epic Battles, a series that focused on the life inside the Islamic State and how the so-called caliphate expanded.[6] Al-I'tisam Media Foundation also published execution videos from the Camp Speicher massacre and other extrajudicial killings.[7] The last official publication by Al-I'tisam Media Foundation was on April 5, 2015, with a video entitled "Repelling of the Safavids in Salah al-Din".[8]