The core of the territory of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was from 2014 until November 2017 in Iraq and Syria, where the organization controlled significant swathes of urban, rural, and desert territory.[4] ISIL also controls land in Yemen, Afghanistan, Libya, Nigeria,[5] Egypt,[6] and possibly Somalia[7] and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[8] The group also has insurgent cells in Algeria, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, the Caucasus, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia that do not control territory.[4][9] As of October 2017, ISIS still holds 10,210 km2 of territory in Iraq and Syria, according to the US-led coalition against ISIS.[10]