The core of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's territory was from 2014 until November 2017 in Iraq and Syria, where the organization controlled significant swathes of urban, rural, and desert territory. ISIL also controls land in Yemen, Afghanistan, Libya, Nigeria, Egypt, and possibly Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The group also has insurgent cells in Algeria, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, the Caucasus, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia that do not control territory. As of October 2017, ISIS still holds 10,210 km 2 of territory in Iraq and Syria, according to the US-led coalition against ISIS. In early 2017, ISIL controlled approximately 45,377 square kilometers (17520 square miles) of territory in Iraq and Syria and 7,323 km 2 of territory elsewhere, for a total of 52,700 km 2. This represents a substantial decline from the group's territorial peak in late 2014, when it controlled between 100,000 km 2 and 110,000 km 2 of territory in total.