[1] Al-I'tisam Media Foundation was established in March 8, 2013 under the Islamic State of Iraq after its expansion into Syria during the Syrian civil war.

[2][3] It was first announced through Al-Qaeda online forums that the original publications would be produced via the Global Islamic Media Front.

[5] One of the more religiously motivated videos the media foundation published was the A 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 the Camp Speicher massacre and other extrajudicial killings.

[7] The last official publication by Al-I'tisam Media Foundation was on April 5, 2015, with a video entitled "Repelling of the Safavids in Salah al-Din".