Pentagon: Islamic State will survive leader’s death
The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will not extinguish the Islamic State’s ideology, US Central Command said, even as the Pentagon keeps up pressure to thin out the group's leadership with raids in Syria.
In his last moments, surrounded by elite US Delta Force operatives, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi crawled into a small hole in a tunnel in his Syria compound and blew himself up, the commander of American forces in the Middle East told reporters at the Pentagon today.
But the death of the IS leader will not extinguish the militant group’s ideology, US Central Command chief Gen. Frank McKenzie said, even as the Pentagon tries to keep up pressure to thin out its leadership with targeted cross-border raids into Syria.
