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Secret US special operations on Saturday and Sunday led to the death of Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his spokesman, Abu al-Hasan al-Muhajir, in Syria, but the organization has already identified its successor, Newsweek reports "who first reported yesterday the murder of the mysterious ID chief.

Inside Syria Media Center' sources report on personnel changes and on the renewal of ISIS leadership. Senior officials in hiding are trying to optimize the management of their structure and continue to carry out illegal subversive activities in a number of Western countries.

Syrian refugees from Aleppo (l to r) Abu Habib, 24, Majd Ahmad, 26, and Abu Rmosh, 30, sit at the alternative neighborhood of Exarchia in Athens on Friday, home to many Syrian refugees in NGO-leased apartments or in squats run by anarchist movements.