Just days after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid by US special forces in October, the
Islamic State group announced the name of the man who has replaced him as leader.
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"We don't know much about him except that he is the leading judge of IS and he heads the Sharia (Islamic law) committee," said Hisham al-Hashemi, an Iraqi expert on the jihadist group.
"The organisation was taken by surprise by the brutality of Baghdadi's elimination," said Jean-Piere Filiu, an Arab world specialist at Paris' Sciences-Po university.