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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/world/middleeast/al-baghdadi-successor-reported-killed.html
Islamic State Spokesman Killed in Separate U.S. Raid
(New York Times) Ben Hubbard - A day after an American raid killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a separate U.S. airstrike killed Islamic State spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, who was considered al-Baghdadi's possible successor. Mazlum Abdi, head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces that fought the Islamic State, wrote on Twitter that al-Muhajir had been killed on Sunday in an operation coordinated between his forces and the U.S.