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Mosul was the largest symbolic center of the ISIS "caliphate" over which the ISIS "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi presides. .

But the organisation – which proclaimed itself a caliphate over the summer – has made strenuous efforts to demonstrate that it can also govern.

Yesterday, US intelligence officials estimated that Boko Haram – who declared an Islamic Caliphate over territory stretching across parts of Nigeria and her neighbour's borders – may have as many as 4,000 to 6,000 "hardcore" fighters.

Almost a year ago militants from Boko Haram, a jihadist group that claims to have established a "caliphate" over a chunk of the country, kidnapped more than 250 girls from the town of Chibok.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), which conquered swathes of northern and western Iraq in the past few weeks, declared a caliphate over the wider region (and eventually the world) and changed its name simply to the Islamic State.

The alternative may be to see a brutal group that seeks a caliphate over much of the Middle East — and that continues to recruit and warp the minds of thousands of fighters holding Western passports — entrenched in much of Iraq and Syria.

Rise and fall of Isis: its dream of a caliphate is over, so what now?

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) says the Islamic State group's five-year "caliphate" is over after the militants' defeat in Syria.

"When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society, Kristoll wrote.

The war game centered on the imagined rise of a group dubbed the "Islamic State of Africa" and the spread of its proto-caliphate over parts of Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon -- countries terrorized by the real Boko Haram, which did recently pledge its allegiance to the Islamic State.

Almost exactly three years ago, on June 29 2014, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the group's self-styled caliph, proclaimed a cross-border caliphate stretching over vast swathes of northwestern Iraq and eastern Syria.