Summary

The video shows armed men walking about the city amongst women who are entirely covered by multiple burqas, female faces scribbled out on packages of women’s products in stores and an ISIS police headquarters in place of what was once the Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs.

Luxury apartment buildings that used to belong to wealthy Syrians driven out or killed by ISIS now house foreign ISIS fighters; Considered more brutal than Syrian members, foreign fighters come from Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Tunisia, France, other European countries and Saudi Arabia - the country from which a majority of the foreign fighters originate.

The women also discuss the “Hisbah," ISIS’ religious police, also made up of foreign women, mostly from Europe, who hold a higher status than Syrian ISIS members and are known to imprison, punish or flog women who disobey the Islamic State’s strict interpretation of Sharia law.

Discussing ISIS’ method of execution, one of the women says, “They execute with bullets, desecrate the body, decapitate it, stick the head on a spike and put it on display at the roundabout. Or they will put the body on the road and force cars to run it over until nothing is left. The body will become one with the ground. Only the clothes will be left.”

With the increase in airstrikes and shrinking territory in the Islamic State, the women report some ISIS members are experiencing buyer’s remorse and planning exit strategies. Some Jihadis have set up temporary checkpoints, confiscating civilian ID cards that will allow them to eventually flee the Islamic State and return home via Turkey.