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Reports from the Vilayet were confusing and tumultuous.

Because his father and uncles, selling tobacco across the region, depended on inter-urban commerce to make a living, they frequently travelled on the Baghdad Railway, commuting between the main cities of the Vilayet of Aleppo, a province of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire collapsed; civil war broke out; General Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the Turkish National Movement, fought a prolonged war for independence against Armenian and French forces in the countryside of the Vilayet.

The IS infrastructure in the kingdom calls itself the Nejd Vilayet of the Caliphate.

IS claims it has already established an underground infrastructure in what it calls the "vilayet of the Nejd."