Database: Identifiers of Designated Islamic Terrorist Organizations

Islamic State

Designation Status (as of October 12, 2026)

US State Dept FTO	Listed ISIS (formerly al-Qa’ida in Iraq) since December 17, 2004
US Treasury OFAC SDN (SDGT)	Listed ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND THE LEVANT
UK Proscribed	Listed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also known as Dawlat al-‘Iraq al-Islamiyya, Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Dawlat al Islamiya fi Iraq wa al Sham (DAISh) and the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham since June 2014
EU Terrorist Lists	Listed Islamic State of Iraq
Canada Listed Entities	Listed Islamic State since August 20, 2012
Australia Listed	Listed Islamic State since July 11, 2014

Official lists as of October 12, 2026. Listing names are quoted as the list gives them. What changed since 2018

Profile written 2014 The profile below is the original Jihad Intel text and has not been updated. Designation status above is current.

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.