The Fifth Floor: Is Islamic State still a threat?
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
10 years ago, IS proclaimed the creation of an Islamic State or Caliphate in Iraq and Syria. They went on to dominate headlines for years, committing terrible attacks and atrocities in the Middle East and beyond. Despite losing territory in 2019, the group still exists and is active in many countries around the world. Jihadist media specialist Mina Al-Lami analyses IS' most recent activities and the threats posed by them and other militant groups.
Produced by Caroline Ferguson and Alice Gioia.
(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | This is |
| 0:05.0 | You're actually |
| 0:09.0 | the fifth floor. |
| 0:10.0 | The fifth floor de noos the fifth floor in Newseus. |
| 0:14.0 | We see me as well. |
| 0:15.0 | To me have this fifth floor |
| 0:17.0 | fornak and me this obad. |
| 0:21.0 | This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC journalists from all around the world. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm your host, Parenak Amid. |
| 0:46.0 | The 29th of June will be 10 years since the group Islamic State or I.S. declared its self-styled caliphate. |
| 0:48.8 | Celebrating the caliphate. |
| 0:55.0 | Jihadist in Eastern Syria greet the announcement of a new Hanafah. A strict Islamic caliphate stretching across the border with Iraq and ruled by the extremist group, ISIS, |
| 1:02.0 | now renamed the Islamic State. |
| 1:06.6 | They bulldozed their way through the border, merging the areas they've seized, areas now |
| 1:11.2 | lost to the government's in Baghdad and Damascus. |
| 1:14.0 | IS was dominating headlines for years by committing attacks and atrocities |
| 1:21.0 | until after years are fighting against countries like Iraq, Syria, and the Kurds, |
| 1:26.8 | it finally lost all of his territory in 2019. But losing their territory didn't mean that they were gone for good. The group |
| 1:36.7 | still exists and is active in some parts of the world. Mina Alami works for the BBC jihadist monitoring team. |
| 1:45.3 | She investigates groups like IS and she's joined me for this episode to tell us about how these |
| 1:51.1 | kind of jihadist groups work and how they use media and propaganda to push |
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