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List of Islamic State members

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List of Islamic State members

This is a list of current and former members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its previous incarnations, including operating as a branch of al-Qaeda known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), from 2004 to 2006.[1] Little is known about the leadership or members, as most use assumed names and many fight or appear in video with covered faces.[2] Most of its members are former officers and soldiers of Saddam Hussein's regime under the then-ruling Iraqi regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party after its collapse in 2003.[3]

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Former IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; mugshot by US armed forces while in detention at Camp Bucca in 2004

Current leadership, branches and personnel

Leadership

Foreign IS branches and governors of IS territories

Personnel

Former leaders and senior personnel

Leaders and personnel captured

Leaders killed

Other personnel killed

  • Abdul Hadi Daghlas (Al-Zarqawi's top Lieutenant, killed in 2003)[151]
  • Abu Anas al-Shami (Strategist, and Al-Zarqawi's adviser, killed in 2004)[152]
  • Abu Azzam (killed in 2005)[153]
  • Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman (killed in 2006)[154]
  • Abu Yaqub al-Masri (killed in 2007)[155]
  • Haitham al-Badri (killed in 2007)[156]
  • Mahir al-Zubaydi (killed in 2008)[157]
  • Mohamed Moumou (killed in 2008)[158]
  • Huthaifa al-Batawi (killed in 2011)[159]
  • Abu Usamah al-Maghrebi, (military commander, killed in March 2014)
  • Zakaryah Raad (1992-2014), fighter, died in June 2014 fighting with IS in the Middle East.[160][161]
  • Salahedin Ghaitun, known by his nom de guerre Abou Tamima, fighter, died on 15 July 2014 from a gun wound in the head.[162]
  • Abu Mosa, press officer, was killed on 22 August 2014 in an attack for al-Tabqa air base in Raqqa Governorate during the Syrian Civil War.[163]
  • Douglas McCain (killed in August 2014)[164]
  • Noureddine El Mejdoubi, known as Issa Abu, fighter, was arrested and imprisoned in Nanclares.[165]
  • Hassan Saeed Al-Jabouri (replacement Mosul Governor, killed in 2014)[166]
  • Abu Jurnas (Mosul Governor, killed in December 2014)[167]
  • Bastian Vasquez, known by his nom de guerre Abu Safiyyah, propagandist, died between January and May in an infighting incident.[168][169]
  • Jake Bilardi (killed in Iraq in 2015)
  • Ahmed al-Ruwaysi (killed in Sirte, Libya in 2015)[170]
  • Maher Meshaal, also known as Abu Hajar al-Hadrami, Saudi nasheed singer killed in July 2015[171]
  • Selim Suleiman al-Haram (a leader of Egypt branch, killed in 2015)[172]
  • Yusuf al-Hindi (former IS leader in India, killed in 2015)
  • Junaid Hussain (recruiter and hacker, killed in August 2015)
  • Mohammed Emwazi, nicknamed "Jihadi John" (participant in beheading videos; killed on 12 November 2015 in Raqqa in a US air strike)[173]
  • Ismail Omar Mostefai, Samy Amimour, Brahim Abdeslam, Bilal Hadfi, Ahmad Al Mohammad and M. al-Mahmod were the perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris attacks, who died the same day, on 14 November 2015.[174][175]
  • Salah Abdeslam
  • Abdelhamid Abaaoud
  • Mohamed Hamduch, known as Kokito Castillejos, recruiter and fighter who died in Aleppo on 1 December 2015.[176][177]
  • Waleed Jaseem al-Alwani – "Abu Ahmad al-Alwani", member of Military Shura, Iraqi, killed 27 December 2015.[178][179]
  • Muhammad "Bada" Sajid – (former Indian Mujahideen member, IS recruiter, killed in Syria in 2015)[180]
  • Raphael Hostey (British recruiter and fighter, killed on May 5, 2016)
  • Ali Aswad al-Jiburi (member of Shura council, killed on May 18, 2016)
  • Abu al-Harith (Sudanese IS preacher and leader of Sirte branch, killed in Sirte, Libya in June 2016)[181][182]
  • Nadir Abu Khalid (Dagestani preacher)[183]
  • Abu Muhammad al-Furqan (IS information minister, killed in September 2016 in Raqqa)[184][185]
  • Abu Saifullah al-Shishani (died 21 December 2016 or in June 2017) (Chechen IS suicide bomber who attacked ISF in eastern Mosul)
  • Abu Rumaysah (born 1983) (British fighter, possibly killed in 2017)
  • Abu Anas al-Iraqi, (Finance chief of IS, killed in a Delta Force raid at Dez ez-Zor in January 2017)[186]
  • Ridvan Haqifi (1990–2017), commander and recruiter, active in Syria and Iraq, Kosovo Albanian. Killed on 8 February 2017.
  • Abu-Zakariya al-Britani, born Ronald Fiddler and also known as Jamal Udeen Al-Harith, was an IS fighter and suicide bomber who blew himself up in a village south of Mosul.[187] He was previously freed from Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[188]
  • Abu Umar al-Almani (1986-2017), commander and recruiter, German. Killed on 25 March 2017.
  • Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi, (Senior Indonesian Leader, killed in April 2017)
  • Abu Maliha al-Kanadi, suicide bomber from Canada who died in May 2017 in Ninawa Province.[189]
  • Fawaz Muhammad Jubayr al-Rawi (Facilitator, killed in a US airstrike at Abu Kamal on 16 June 2017)[190]
  • Ahmad Medinskiy (Dagestani preacher, killed in June 2017)[191][192]
  • Sally-Anne Jones – "Umm Hussain al-Britani" (1968–2017), recruiter, British. Killed in June 2017.[193]
  • Khaled Sharrouf, foreign fighter who was presumably killed in air strike on 11 August 2017.[194][195][196]
  • Yahya al-Bahrumi – (American fighter, killed in October 2017)
  • Akhmed Chatayev (1980–2017), trainer and organizer of activity against Russian diplomatic missions, Chechnyan. Killed on 22 November 2017 in Tbilisi by Georgian security forces.
  • Abu Natheer al-Muhajir – (deputy emir of the Salahuddin Province, killed on 25 November 2017)[197]
  • Abu Shuayb as-Somali, born Sayid Hussein Feisal Ali Warabe in 1991, traveled from Finland to Syria in early 2013 to become a jihadi fighter. He joined al-Nusra and later ISIS, and believes he was killed in an airstrike on 29 December 2017 in Syria.[198][199]
  • Denis Cuspert – "Abu Talha al-Almani" (1975–2018), German recruiter active since 2013. Killed in Gharanij, Syria on 17 January 2018.[200]
  • "The Beatles", hostage torturers and executioners, British.[201]
  • Qari Hekmat – (High-ranking commander of IS's Afghan franchise in the northern province of Jowzjan, killed on 7 April 2018)[27][202]
  • Nasser Abu Zaqul – (Central Sinai commander of the Islamic State, killed on 18 April 2018)[203]
  • Abu Huzeifa Al-Iraqi – (High-ranking IS commander, killed in April 2018)[204]
  • Abu Walid al-Shishany – (close aid and right-hand man to Baghdadi, killed on 20 April 2018)[205]
  • Qari Zahid – (Key Islamic State commander also known as Perai, killed on 24 April 2018)[206]
  • Saleh Nasser Fadhl al-Bakshi – (senior Islamic State commander; also known as the "Prince" for the Aden area; killed on 28 April 2018)[207][208]
  • Imad Jibar, fighter, was arrested in Turkey.[209]
  • Bahrumsyah – (senior South-Asian commander and highest ranking Indonesian to fight with the IS; reported killed in April 2018)[210][28]
  • Khaled al-Loweizi – (IS member, arrested on 3 May 2018)[211]
  • Tareq Kamleh – (foreign recruiter, killed on 8 June 2018)
  • Mufti Nemat – (leading IS commander in northern Afghanistan, surrendered on 1 August 2018)
  • Mahad Moalim – (senior Islamic State commander in Somalia, killed on 23 October 2018)[212]
  • Christian Emde — (German Commander, killed in late 2018)[213]
  • Shamima Begum – (British fighter, captured in February 2019)
  • Umm Hamza – (former Leader of Al-Khansaa Brigade, surrendered on 24 February 2019)[214]
  • Akel Zainal — (Malaysian fighter, killed in March 2019)[215]
  • Mullah Krekar, Norwegian recruiter and leader of Rawti Shax who was arrested on 16 July 2019)[216]
  • Abu al-Ward al-Iraqi – (IS Oil Official, killed in raid in Deir al-Zour province on 14 January 2020)[217]
  • Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, foreign fighter and recruiter who was captured in Almería, Spain on 21 April 2020 and died in prison. He planned to lead a terrorist cell in Europe.[218]
  • Bilal al-Sudani (killed in northern Somalia on January 25, 2023)[219]
  • Andre Richard Omer Poulin, known by his nom de guerre Abu Muslim, was a foreign fighter from Timmins, Ontario,[220] who joined the fight in Syria in 2012 and recruited other jihadists.[221][222]
  • Kevin Chassin, known by the nom de guerre Abu Maryam al Faransi,[223] militant who threatened France and died on a suicide attack in Iraq.[224][225]
  • Abu Abdul Aziz al Faransi, IS militant who blew up himself in Haditha on 22 May 2015.[226][227]
  • Kujtim Fejzulai, known by the nom de guerre Abu Dagnah Al-Albany,[228] IS sympathizer who carried out the Vienna attack on 2 November 2020.[229]
  • Abu Obaida, also known as Abu Obeida,[230] a senior IS leader who was the chief of the Hisbah patrol in Raqqa,[231] and he was arrested on 18 August 2021 in Khalis, Iraq by Iraqi special intelligence.[232]
  • Abu 'Uqayl from Singapore, also known as Megat Shahdan bin Abdul Samad (1978-2021), is an IS fighter who travelled to Syria.[233] Internal Security Department said it is believed he was killed in a conflict zone.[234]
  • Khalil Abdullah al-Khalif, also known as Khaled Iyad Ahmad al-Jabouri, a senior ISIS operative was killed on April 3, 2023.[235]
  • Surat Gul, also known as Saifullah, Islamic State Khorasan leader killed on 11 February 2024 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[236][237]

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