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Islamic State in Libya

Libyan Provinces
Wilayah al-Fizan, Wilayah Barqah, Wilayah al-Tarabulus
Participant in the Second Libyan Civil War
AQMI Flag asymmetric.svg
The Black Standard of ISIL.
Active 13 November 2014 - Present
Ideology Salafist Islamism
Salafist Jihadism
Leaders Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader of ISIL)
Abu Nabil al Anbari (Nom de guerre Abul Mughirah al Qahtani) 
Abdel Qader al-Najdi
Headquarters
  • Derna
    (November 2014 - June 2015)
  • Sirte
    (July 2015 - 6 December 2016)
  • Benghazi
    (December 2016 - present)
Area of operations Libya
Strength

≈500,
or 5,000-6,500,

or 10,000
Part of  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Opponents

Libya Libyan Parliament

Libya New General National Congress

Shura Council of Mujahideen in Derna

Egypt Egypt

≈500,
or 5,000-6,500,

Libya Libyan Parliament

Libya New General National Congress

Shura Council of Mujahideen in Derna

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is a militant Islamist group active in Libya under three branches: Fezzan Province (Arabic: ولاية الفزان‎‎, Wilayah al-Fizan) in the desert south, Cyrenaica Province (Arabic: ولاية البرقة‎‎, Wilayah al-Barqah) in the east, and Tripolitania Province (Arabic: ولاية الطرابلس‎‎, Wilayah al-Tarabulus) in the west. The branches were formed on 13 November 2014, following pledges of allegiance to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by militants in Libya.


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