Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - Sinai province was known as Ansar Bait al-Maqdis (ABM) which has been part of the Sinai insurgency and has been especially active in the Sinai Peninsula since 2011 after the deterioration of security there, focusing its efforts on Israel and the Arab gas pipeline to Jordan. After former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was deposed in the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, Egypt also began a crackdown on jihadist groups in Sinai and elsewhere. ABM and other jihadist groups intensified their campaign of attacks on Egyptian security forces. On 13 November 2014, ABM dissolved it’s loyalty to Al-Qaeda and pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, (the leader of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), also known as ISIL, and adopted the name Sinai Province ("Wilayah Sīnāʼ") claiming to be a branch of ISIL. Al-Baghdadi was killed in October 2019.