al-Baghdadi, Leadership Targeting and the Future of ISIS
With the recent death of ISIS leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi, attention has been focused on what this means for the future of the group he led. But what does the current evidence suggest about the effects of killing militant leaders?
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