مؤسسة الإعتصام للإعلام | |
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| Formation | March 8, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-03-08) |
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| Dissolved | April 5, 2015; 10 years ago (2015-04-05) |
| Owner |  Islamic State of Iraq(until April 8, 2013)Islamic State(from June 29, 2014) |
Al-I'tisam Media Foundation (Arabic:مؤسسة الإعتصام للإعلام,romanized: Muʼassasat al-Iʻtiṣām lil-Iʻlām) was one of the main media foundations of theIslamic State and theIslamic State of Iraq.[1]
Al-I'tisam Media Foundation was established in March 8, 2013 under theIslamic State of Iraq after its expansion intoSyria during theSyrian civil war.[2][3] It was first announced throughAl-Qaedaonline forums that the original publications would be produced via theGlobal Islamic Media Front.[4]
The media foundation primarily focused on Islamic religious topics during its time of establishment, including thefatwas ofAyman al-Zawahiri and thefatwas ofOsama Bin Laden afterhis assassination. After the establishment of a so-called caliphate under theIslamic State, Al-I'tisam Media Foundation started publishing sermons ofAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi, audio addresses from the official Islamic State spokespersonAbu Mohammad al-Adnani, and issues of theEnglish-language magazineDabiq,French-language magazineDar al-Islam, andTurkish-language magazineKonstantiniyye.[5]
One of the more religiously motivated videos the media foundation published was theA 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 theCamp Speicher massacre and otherextrajudicial killings.[7] The last official publication by Al-I'tisam Media Foundation was on April 5, 2015, with a video entitled "Repelling of theSafavids inSalah al-Din".[8]
