# List of leaders of the Islamic State

This is a list of leaders of the Islamic State since the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq.

## List of leaders
### Emirs of the Islamic State of Iraq

| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Time of Leadership | Time of Leadership | Time of Leadership | Note(s) |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Announced | Left office | Time in office | Note(s) |
| 1 | | Abu Omar al-Baghdadi حَمِيدُ دَاوُدَ مُحَمَّدُ خَلِيلِ ٱلزَّاوِيِّ (1959–2010) | 15 October 2006 | 18 April 2010 | 3 years, 185 days | Al-Baghdadi was killed when a joint operation of US and Iraqi forces rocketed a safe house 10 kilometers (6 mi) southwest of Tikrit. |
| 2 | | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi أَبُو بَكْرٍ ٱلْبَغْدَادِيُّ (1971–2019) | 18 April 2010 | 7 April 2013 | 2 years, 354 days | The position was succeeded by a caliph after ISIL announced the establishment of a worldwide caliphate. |

### Caliphs of the Islamic State

| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Time of Leadership | Time of Leadership | Time of Leadership | Note(s) |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Announced | Left office | Time in office | Note(s) |
| 1 | | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi أَبُو بَكْرٍ ٱلْبَغْدَادِيُّ (1971–2019) | 7 April 2013 | 27 October 2019 | 6 years, 203 days | On 27 October 2019, US Joint Special Operations Command's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (SFOD-D) along with soldiers from the 75th Ranger Regiment and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment conducted a raid through air space controlled by Russia and Turkey into the rebel-held Idlib province of Syria on the border with Turkey to capture al-Baghdadi. He was cornered in a tunnel and died by self-detonating a suicide vest, killing alongside two other young children. |
| 2 | | Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi أبو الحسن القرشي (1976–2022) | 31 October 2019 | 3 February 2022 | 2 years, 95 days | On 3 February 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that U.S. military forces successfully undertook a counterterrorism operation in the town of Atme in Idlib, resulting in the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi by a suicide vest which also killed 12 others. |
| 3 | | Abu al-Hasan al-Qurashi أبو الحسن القرشي (19??-2022) | 10 March 2022 | 15 October 2022 | 219 days | Little is known about al-Qurashi. According to Iraqi security and government officials, al-Qurashi was the elder brother of former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Research published by Hisham al-Hashimi in 2020 stated that al-Qurashi headed the five-member Shura Council. He killed himself on 15 October 2022 by detonating a suicide vest during an operation carried out by former Free Syrian Army rebels which had aligned with government forces in Daraa province. |
| 4 | | Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi أبو الحسن القرشي (19??-2023) | 30 November 2022 | 29 April 2023 | 150 days | Abu al-Hussein was announced as the new leader of Islamic State by Abu Omar al-Muhajir, in the same audio that confirmed Abu al-Hasan's death. The Islamic State announced on August 3, 2023 that Abu al-Hussein was killed by Tahrir al-Sham militants in Idlib province. |
| 5 | | Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi ابو حفص الهاشمي القريشي (born 19??) | 3 August 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 181 days | Abu Hafs was announced as the new leader of Islamic State, in the same audio that confirmed Abu al-Hussein's death. |

## List of Spokesmen of the Islamic State

* Abu Mohammad al-Adnani
* Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir
* Abu Hamza Al-Qurashi
* Abu Omar al-Muhajir
* Abu Hudhayfah Al-Ansari

## Leaders of the international branches of the Islamic State

List of known leaders of the international branches of the Islamic State part of the worldwide caliphate.

### Boko Haram as part of IS

* Abubakar Shekau (2015–2016)

### Islamic State – Caucasus Province

* Rustam Asildarov (23 June 2015 – 3 December 2016)
* Aslan Byutukaev (2016-2021)

### Islamic State – Sahel Province

* Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi (13 May 2015 – 2019)
* Abdoul Hakim al-Sahrawi (2019 (Possible) – present)

### Islamic State – Khorasan Province

* Hafiz Saeed Khan (2015 – July 2016)
* Abdul Haseeb Logari (2016 – April 2017)
* Abdul Rahman Ghaleb (April – July 2017)
* Abu Saad Erhabi (July 2017 – August 2018)
* Ziya ul-Haq (August 2018 – April 2019)
* Abdullah Orokzai (April 2019 – April 2020)
* Shahab al-Muhajir (April 2020 – present)

### Islamic State in Libya

* Abu Nabil al-Anbari (13 November 2014 – 13 November 2015)
* Abdul Qader al-Najdi (March 2016 – present) (possible death in September 2020)

### Islamic State in Somalia

* Abdul Qadir Mumin (22 October 2015 – present)

### Islamic State – West Africa Province

* Abubakar Shekau (2015 – 2016) – deposed for being too radical
* Abu Musab al-Barnawi (2016 – 2019) – deposed and demoted without explanation
* Abu Abdullahi Umar Al Barnawi "Ba Idrisa" (2019 – 2020) – purged and reportedly killed after some of his followers opposed his deposition
* Lawan Abubakar "Ba Lawan" / "Abba Gana" (2020 – 2021)

#### Claimed leaders by media and officials

* Lawan Abubakar (July – August 2021)
* "Abu Dawud" / "Aba Ibrahim" (from August 2021)
* Malam Bako or Abu Musab al-Barnawi (c. October 2021)
* Sani Shuwaram (from November 2021)

### Islamic State – Yemen Province

* Abu Bilal al-Harbi (c. 2014 – March 2017 (or earlier))
* Abu Osama al-Muhajir (POW) (March 2017 – 25 June 2019)