Edit disagreements    Where are you getting the figure range for  from I couldnt find these figures in any of the sources you cited unless youre estimating based on predictions from the article Abu Omar alShishani is not the chief in command of both Iraq and Syria This is ridiculous I dont know why so many people believe this I suspect it might be becuase he is so prevalent in the IS propaganda that he is somehow the Islamic States version of Napoleon Bonaparte I cannot find any reputable source claiming he is anything more than a field commander in northern Syria He doesnt even feature in any IS leadership hierarchies which are almost exclusively staffed by Iraqis who have been in the organisations since the earlymid s When the former commander of the IS Military Council passed away in June  Abu Abdulrahman alBilawi Iraqi secutyi forces found some memory sticks and a laptop containing the following leadership information currently pieced together by western analysts Note how alShishani doesnt feature in any of them save one which turned out to be incorrect Here they are    Here is the false one which showed alShishani succeeding alBilawi as the IS military chief of the Military Shura  However it was Abu Ayman alIraqi another IS Iraqi commander who had been in the organisation years before alShishani had joined who succeeded alBilawi as the Chief of the Military Shura He is shown in the graph as Adnan Latif Hamid alSweidawi which is his real name You never see the upper echelons of the IS hierarchy the ones who actually control everything They are not shown in IS propaganda They are clandestine mysterious shadowy figures Only the pawns are revealed You keep stating that JamaatulAhrar have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State This is just not true You might get this impression becuase they broke away from the TTP or the Pakistani Taliban which swear allegiance to the head of the Afghan Taliban Mullah Omar But the spokesperson for JamaatulAhrar stated that they pledged allegiance to the Taliban leader  The leader of JamaatulAhrar Omar Khalid has strong ties to Ayman alZawahiri and AlQaeda a nemesis to the Islamic State  You state that Abu Sayyaf have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State however the man who swore allegiance to them is not the groups leader so it is unclear whether or not he is representing Abu Sayyaf or a splinter faction  You write that Ansar alIslam is an AlQaeda affiliate but I can find little to no proof affirming this position The leadership of Ansar alIslam have rejected the notion that they swear allegiance to alQaeda despite collaborating with their affiliates such as the alNusra FrontUS terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna in January  however disagreed with Krekar and affirmed links of Ansar with alQaeda Ansar alIslam has links with alQaeda  in fact it is an associate group of alQaeda The US Defense Intelligence Agency seemed to have affirmed this when they wrote Ansar alIslam is an independent organization that receives assistance from alQaeda but is not a branch of the groupDIA Special Analysis July   cited in Postwar Findings about Iraqs WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How they Compare with Prewar Assessments pg