Islamic State's 'caliphate' in Syria, Iraq

The Islamic State group's Iraq and Syria "caliphate" was eradicated in March, five years after it was proclaimed, largely reducing the jihadist militants to scattered sleeper cells.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that the group's elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed during a nightime US raid in northern Syria.

Here is a recap:'Caliphate' declared

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) declared in June 2014 that they had set up a caliphate, under the leadership of Baghdadi, in territory seized in Syria and Iraq.

Since January that year they had been in control of Syria's northern city of Raqa. They also seized part of the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, on the Iraqi border, as well as positions in the northern province of Aleppo.

In Iraq, they took Mosul and Sunni Arab areas bordering the autonomous Kurdistan region in the country's north in June.

Raqa and Mosul became the two de-facto IS capitals.

Atrocities

Rebranded the Islamic State, they carried .