Islamic State – Bengal Province
| Islamic State – Bengal Province | |
|---|---|
| الدَولة الإسْلامية – ولاية البِنغال | |
Logo of the Bengal Province | |
| Leaders | Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif (2015-2019) Abu Muhammed al-Bengali (2019-2020) Abu Abbas al-Bengali (2020-present) |
| Dates of operation | 2015–present |
| Allegiance | Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh |
| Headquarters | Bangladesh |
| Active regions | Bangladesh |
| Ideology | Islamic Statism |
| Size | Unknown |
| Part of | Islamic State |
| Opponents | |
| Battles and wars | Attacks by Islamic extremists in Bangladesh |
battles, war.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 (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 July 2016 Dhaka attack. He was detained in Iraq in 2019 and Abu Muhammed al-Bengali was announced as the new emir of the province.
Neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, an offshoot of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (Al-Qaeda affiliated), effectively operates as the main IS branch in Bangladesh.
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. It has also been designated as a terrorist organization by Canada.