In exclusive interviews with Rudaw, two captured Islamic State fighters tell of the shadowy inner-workings of ISIS. The prisoners, Hussein Ali Shaddad, 23, and Amir Ahmed Ali, 25, were both captured by the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Cizire province, in Syria’s ethnically Kurdish region known as Rojava. The interviews, conducted at the YPG security office in Derek, Syria, exposed grim information about the Islamic State and its fighters. Shaddad, who holds a degree in civil engineering, was recruited by ISIS in 2012. He says he has killed seven people using only his handgun. In the interview, he revealed that militants were using drugs before battles and they intended to extend the Islamic State all over the world. Ali said ISIS regarded all Kurds and Christians as infidels and revealed how they smuggled weapons to arm the group.
