The United States announced that it is labeling the Islamic State group’s new leader a “specially designated global terrorist.”
The State Department in a Tuesday press release that Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al Mawla would receive the designation. Al Mawla has been identified as the new leader of ISIS after Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was killed in October during an operation by U.S. special operations forces.
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