ISIS leader is dead, but group is not defeated

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The United States dealt a major blow to ISIS in Syria last week. It assassinated its top leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. But does that spell the end of the terror group that once controlled large swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq? The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

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