Tah al Binchi

PersonBorn 1977Last read from source 19 Oct 2026

Was the official spokesman of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq, and emir of ISIL in Syria, closely associated with Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, listed as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai. Reportedly killed in August 2016 in air strike near al-Bab, Syria.

Sanctioned · EU
Listed by 1 authorityIQ
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Sources
15 names on file
Listed in their own right1

Named directly by EU.

Director of a company that is listed—

No company role is recorded for this person by any register read.

Sanctions1 active

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    Designation date not published by this authority · EU Consolidated Sanctions List

Companies & roles

No company role is recorded for this person. Roles come from national business registers, and a sanctioned individual will usually have none here — the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists.

On the record

Name
Tah al Binchi
Also known as
Abu Mohammed al-Adnani · Abou Sadeq Alrawi · Taha Sobhi Falaha · Yasser Khalaf Hussein Nazal al-Rawi
Date of birth
1977
Place of birth
Binnish, SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
Nationality
IQ
Position
Was the official spokesman of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq, and emir of ISIL in Syria, closely associated with Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, listed as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai. Reportedly killed in August 2016 in air strike near al-Bab, Syria.
First recorded here
28 Aug 2026

Exposure

Medium risk1 of 5 components assessed — no composite shown, because how much was read is itself unknown here
Sanctions and debarments60

Sanctioned by 1 authority: EU. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.

Not scored

Company associations

Not scored. No company role is recorded for this person, which is an absence of records rather than a finding.

Jurisdiction

Not scored. The jurisdiction lists this system reads are: EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9). Each names specific countries, so absence from them is not a clearance of Iraq. Separately, 12 of the sanctions authorities this system reads have designated companies registered in Iraq — a count of this corpus, not a rating of the jurisdiction.

Evidence coverage

Not scored. The evidence ledger records which sources were read for a COMPANY; it holds no per-person rows, so there is no coverage figure to price in here. The sources behind this record are listed under Evidence.

Adverse media

Not scored. Media coverage is not linked to individuals in this system at all, only to companies, and even there it covers a small fraction of the records.

Band drawn from the components that could be measured, methodology v5. The unscored ones above are gaps in what was read, not findings of nothing. Not a compliance determination — check the underlying listings before acting on anything here.

Recent activity

  1. 19 Oct 2026Last read from source