What the records say
- When
- 2016 – 2017
- Kind
- Armed conflict
- Deaths
- 88
- Coordinates
- 24.00° N, 90.43° E
- Incompatibility
- territory
- Type of conflict
- intrastate
- Territory name
- Islamic State
- Region
- Asia
- Location
- Bangladesh
- Side a
- Government of Bangladesh
Placed at the middle of its 32 recorded clashes (UCDP GED).
Islamic State – Bengal Province
Bengali branch of the Salafi jihadist group IS
Islamic State – Bengal Province (IS-BP) is an administrative division of the Islamic State, a Salafi jihadist militant group. The group was announced by ISIL as its province in 2016. The first emir of Wilayat al-Bengal, Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif, is believed to be Mohammad Saifullah Ozaki a Bangladeshi Japanese economist who went to Syria in 2015 and joined IS.
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The source
- UCDP Battle-Related DeathsUppsala Conflict Data ProgramCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
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