ISIS releases 'anniversary documentary' on Mosul capture

June 12, 2015 03:48

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Thursday released a propaganda documentary marking a year since it captured Mosul and recounting its surprise at how easily it took over Iraq's second city.

The film glamorises the founding moment of the "caliphate" ISIS proclaimed less than three weeks later as an epic conquest but it also further documents the collapse of Iraq's security forces.

The 29 minutes of often previously unreleased footage shows the militants being welcomed by Mosul residents, prisoners being freed and soldiers desperately attempting to flee in vehicles.

"It was unthinkable that the advance would be so much greater than was planned," said the narrator of the video, which was published on social media on Thursday.

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