ISIL Declares the Establishment of the Caliphate and Changes Its Name to the "Islamic State"

The official spokesperson for the terrorist group "the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) Abu Muhammad al-Adnani al-Shami has stated in a recent audio message that his group is now declaring the establishment of the Islamic Caliphate, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (aka Ibrahim Awwad) as the Caliph of Muslims around the world. He also mentioned that the name of the group no longer contains the phrase "in Iraq and al-Sham (the Levant)" but is now simply referred to as "the Islamic State".