Database: Identifiers of Designated Islamic Terrorist Organizations

Islamic State

Designated as terrorist by: Australia, Canada, European Union, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States

Base of operations: Iraq, Syria

Background: National Counterterrorism Center
Background: Council on Foreign Relations

The Islamic State, previously known as the Islamic in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)/the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) and previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), is a terrorist group that emerged in the wake of the U.S.-led war against Saddam Hussein. Originally helmed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, it targeted civilians and battled coalition forces, killing many U.S. soldiers, before suffering reverses due to the 2007 troop surge and indigenous resistance. In the aftermath of Zarqawi's death in October 2006, AQI, then operating a Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen front group, merged with other jihadi groups in Iraq to form ISI. After the U.S. withdrawal, ISI returned to prominence with a new wave of bombings and attacks. In 2013, its leader announced that the group had expanded its operations to the Syrian theater, where it fights both the regime of Bashar al-Assad and less radical opposition movements; it changed its name at that time. ISIL seized large swaths of territory across Iraq in a 2014 offensive, most notably spearheading insurgent offensives into Mosul and Tikrit. On June 29, 2014, ISIL announced itself to be the Caliphate/Islamic State, the first such declaration since the end of the Ottoman Empire. Underlining ISIL's threat to America, two AQI-affiliated jihadists admitted to the U.S. as refugees were arrested in Kentucky in 2011 and later convicted on terrorism charges.

Al-Fawaris Media	Al-Platform Media	Al-Platform Media: Al-Zora Media	Ansar al-Sharia Gaza/Bait al-Maqdis
Black Flag of Jihad (Sacred Seal Version)	De Basis Emblem	Islamic State Ajnad Media Emblem	Islamic State Billboard in Syria
Islamic State Billboard: Hasakah Province	Islamic State Emblem	Islamic State Flag	Islamic State Twitter
Islamic State Twitter	Islamic State: "Caliphate News"	Islamic State: "Caliphate"	Islamic State: "City Charter"
Islamic State: "Emirate of Kairouan"	Islamic State: "Palestinian Support"	Islamic State: "Raqqa in the Shadow of the Caliphate"	Islamic State: "Remaining"
Islamic State: "Sinai Province"	Islamic State: Africa Media	Islamic State: Al-Battar Media	Islamic State: al-Furat Press
Islamic State: Al-Furqan Media	Islamic State: al-Ghuraba Media	Islamic State: Al-Hayat Media "Mujatweets"	Islamic State: Al-Hayat Media Recruiting Video
Islamic State: Al-Ibaa Media	Islamic State: Al-Itisam Media	Islamic State: Al-Khansaa Media Brigade	Islamic State: Al-Sham Media
Islamic State: Al-Wagha Media	Islamic State: Aleppo Province News	Islamic State: Amaq News	Islamic State: Anbar Province News
Islamic State: Ansar al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Gaza	Islamic State: Bayan Radio	Islamic State: Caliph Ibrahim (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) Graffiti	Islamic State: Caliph Ibrahim- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Islamic State: Caliphate Media	Islamic State: Caucasus Province	Islamic State: Children	Islamic State: Constantinople Magazine
Islamic State: Cyrenaica Province	Islamic State: Dabiq Magazine	Islamic State: Damascus Province	Islamic State: Dawa al-Haq News Agency
Islamic State: Deir az-Zor Province News	Islamic State: Diyala Province News	Islamic State: Epic Battle Division (Al-Battar Media)	Islamic State: Euphrates Province News
Islamic State: Fresh Air Media	Islamic State: Gazan contingent	Islamic State: Hama Province	Islamic State: Hasakah Province News
Islamic State: Homs Province	Islamic State: Ibn al-Azad	Islamic State: Indonesian Support	Islamic State: Islamic State Magazine
Islamic State: islamic-dw.com	Islamic State: Jamaat Ansar al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Bayt al-Maqdis	Islamic State: Katiba al-Bittar al-Libi	Islamic State: Khorasan Province
Islamic State: Libya Provinces	Islamic State: Media Front for Support	Islamic State: Najd Province	Islamic State: Nashir
Islamic State: North Baghdad Province	Islamic State: Path to Heaven Media	Islamic State: Pro-Caliphate Pamphlets	Islamic State: Raqqa Islamic News Network
Islamic State: Raqqa Media Center	Islamic State: Raqqa Province News	Islamic State: Rumiyah Magazine	Islamic State: Sanaa Province
Islamic State: Shabwa Province	Islamic State: Sham al-Melahem Media	Islamic State: Shami Support	Islamic State: Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade
Islamic State: South Province (Iraq) News	Islamic State: Tel Abyad Media Center	Islamic State: Tripoli Province	Islamic State: Tunisia Province
Islamic State: West Africa Province	Islamic State: Workshop of the Knights of Publication	Islamic State: World Under Islam Graphic	Islamic State: Yemen Province
Islamic State: Yemeni Support Foundation	Land of Islam- Sacred Seal Version	Lions of the Caliphate Emblem	Pro-Islamic State Barbecue in Cardiff, UK
Shumukh al-Islam Forum	Shumukh al-Islam Forum Graphic	Sout us-Salam	Tanẓim Ansar al-Tawheed fi Bilad al-Hind: Isabah Media