Summary
The United States is researching the new Daesh (ISIS) leader to determine his previous roles in the organization, Nathan Sales, the U.S. counterterrorism coordinator, said Friday after a U.S. raid last month killed its former leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Daesh, in an audio tape posted online Thursday, confirmed that Baghdadi was killed in a weekend raid by U.S. Special Forces in northwestern Syria.
While world leaders hailed Baghdadi's death, security analysts warned the threat of Daesh and its ideology was far from over.
Separately, Sales said the United States brought back and prosecuted six adult fighters or Daesh supporters.
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