ISIL territorial claims

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām
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Anthem:  None official "My Ummah, Dawn Has Appeared"(unofficial)
Areas of control as of November 20, 2016 in the Iraqi, Syrian, and Lebanese conflicts. Map legend   Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant   Iraqi government   Syrian government   Lebanese government   Iraqi Kurdistan forces   Syrian Kurdistan forces   Syrian opposition forces   al-Nusra Front   Hezbollah   Turkish Government/Turkish Army Note: Iraq and Syria contain large desert areas with limited populations. These areas are mapped as under the control of forces holding roads and towns within them.
Status	Unrecognized state Designated as a terrorist organization
Capital	Al-Raqqah
Official languages	Arabic
Religion	Sunni Islam
Government	Unitary Islamic theocratic totalitarian caliphate
• Leader	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
• Head of the Shura Council	Abu Arkan al-Ameri
War on Terror / Syrian Civil War
• Established under the name of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad	1999
• Joined al-Qaeda	October 2004
• Declaration of an Islamic state in Iraq	13 October 2006
• Claim of territory in the Levant	8 April 2013
• Separated from al-Qaeda	3 February 2014
• Declaration of caliphate	29 June 2014 13 November 2014 (Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen) 29 January 2015 (South Asia) 12 March 2015 (Nigeria) 23 June 2015 (North Caucasus)
Currency	Islamic dinar de facto also Iraqi dinar, Syrian pound
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Drives on the	right

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is an active extremist Islamist rebel group and self-declared Caliphate in the Middle East which claims to be a sovereign state, and as such has made announcements of territorial control and aspirations of control. No other nation recognizes ISIL as a state. Its goal is the foundation of an Islamic state and a worldwide caliphate, in accordance with Salafi Islam, by the means of military jihad.

ISIL primarily claimed territory in Syria and Iraq, subdividing each country into multiple wilayah (provinces), largely based on preexisting governance boundaries. The first territorial claims by the group outside of Syria and Iraq were announced by its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, on 13 November 2014, when he announced new wilayats, or provinces, in Libya (Wilayat al-Barqah, Wilayat al-Tarabulus, and Wilayat al-Fizan), Algeria (Wilayat al-Jazair), Egypt (Wilayat Sinai), Yemen (Wilayat Sanaa), and Saudi Arabia (Wilayat al-Haramayn). In 2015, new provinces were also announced in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border (Wilayat Khorasan), Northern Nigeria (Wilayat Gharb Afriqiya), and the North Caucasus (Wilayat al-Qawqaz).