Al-Barakah (Islamic State administrative district)

Al-Barakah Arabic: الْبَرَكَة, romanized: al-Barakah
Administrative district (former province) of the Islamic State
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Proto-state	Islamic State
Established	2014
Capital	Al-Shaddadah (until 2016)[1] Hajin (by 2018)
Government
• Wali	Abdul Nasser Qardash (2014, 2015) Abu Osama al-Iraqi † (2014–2015) Abu al-Waleed al-Sinawi † (?–2018)

Al-Barakah (Arabic: الْبَرَكَة, romanized: al-Barakah) is a Syrian administrative district of the Islamic State (IS), a Salafi jihadist militant group and unrecognised proto-state. Originally set up as al-Barakah Province (Arabic: وِلَايَة الْبَرَكَة, romanized: Wilāyah al-Barakah) to govern IS territories in al-Hasakah Governorate, the province shifted south after 2016 due to the territorial losses to the YPG/YPJ. Having been demoted from province to district in 2018, al-Barakah administered a small strip of land along the Euphrates in Deir ez-Zor Governorate until the Battle of Baghuz Fawqani; since then the "territory" has turned into an insurgency.