Life After Daesh

- Season 1

(2017)

After serving as an informant for Al Qaeda, "Ahmed" joins ISIS and becomes a policeman. After seeing how brutally ISIS treats the people of his hometown, "Ahmed" defects and tries to enlist in the Iraqi Army to fight ISIS.

When her sons are conscripted by ISIS, a Syrian mother reluctantly joins the organization to keep an eye on them. Learning that her sons are going into battle, she plans a risky escape to get her family out of Raqqa.

After joining ISIS to earn money for his family, Abu Farouq reconsiders his career choice when ISIS blows up his house and almost cuts his throat.

Believing that ISIS will liberate his country from the Assad regime, a Syrian businessman joins the organization--only to discover that ISIS intends to destroy his country, not save it.

A Fallujah teenager leaves school to join ISIS and is thrown into combat, where he sees his comrades blown to pieces. Disillusioned and frightened, Abu Obeida crafts a plan to defect from ISIS and bring his family with him.

Wanting to avenge the deaths of civilians at the hands of the Assad regime, a Moroccan mechanic joins ISIS in Syria. When he is ordered to shoot innocent civilians, and his best friend is executed, he realizes he made a huge mistake.

After organizing protests against the Iraqi government, an idealistic student joins ISIS. His idealism shatters when he witnesses a horrific ISIS attack on Shiite pilgrims and is drawn into the dark world of ISIS sex slavery.

An ex-Iraqi soldier joins the Al Qaeda insurgency and becomes one of the first members of ISIS. He is repelled by the brutality and corruption of the Islamic State's leaders and flees to the desert --with ISIS assassins hot on his heels.

Stranded in Libya during the Arab Spring, a Moroccan cook is forced to join ISIS. Another ISIS recruit shares her escape plans, and he finds himself on a rickety boat drifting in the pitch-dark Mediterranean Sea.

After a quarrel with his father, a rebellious teenager runs off to Raqaa to join ISIS. But once he sees the enormity of the Islamic State's crimes against civilians and its own jihadists, he has to grow up fast.

A young Lebanese man goes to Syria and joins ISIS to fight the Assad regime. After seeing ISIS murder women and children, he takes drugs to escape the horror of his predicament.

A poor Moroccan farmer is enticed by an online recruiter to go to Syria and join ISIS. But after seeing his ISIS comrades turn on each other and brutalize other Muslims, he realizes the enormity of his mistake.

After being forced to join ISIS as a policewoman, a young Syrian woman finds out that a Tunisian fighter has chosen her to be his wife. Khadija and her family hatch a desperate plan to escape from ISIS and the unwanted wedding.