Islamic State – Bengal Province
Overview of the Islamic State's activity in Bangladesh / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Islamic State – Bengal Province (IS-BP) is an administrative division of the Islamic State, a Salafi jihadist militant group and former unrecognised Quasi-state. The group was announced by ISIL as its province in 2016.[4] The first emir of Wilayat al-Bengal, Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif, is believed to be Mohammad Saifullah Ozaki (born as Sajit Chandra Debnath, 1982) a Bangladeshi Japanese economist who went to Syria in 2015 and joined IS. A Hindu convert to Islam, he reportedly led the 2016 Dhaka attack. He was detained in Iraq in 2019 and Abu Muhammed al-Bengali was announced as the new emir of the province.[5][6]
Islamic State – Bengal Province | |
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Leaders | Abul Abbas al-Bengali |
Dates of operation | 2016 – Present |
Headquarters | No Headquarter |
Active regions | Bangladesh |
Ideology | Salafist Jihadist Islamism |
Size | unknown |
Part of | Islamic State |
Allies | Islamic State |
Opponents | |
Battles and wars | Internal conflict in Bangladesh |
Neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, an offshoot of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (Al-Qaeda affiliated), effectively operates as the main IS branch in Bangladesh.[6]
It has been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under the SDN by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, with addresses in Dhaka, Rangpur, Sylhet and Jhenaidah.[7] It has also been designated as a Terrorist Organization by Canada.[8]