The United States is promising there will be no easing of its offensive against the Islamic State after the death of the group’s leader. U.S. officials say Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed as part of a dangerous nighttime raid in northern Syria. Baghdadi took command of the group formerly known as al-Qaida in Iraq in 2010. The Islamic State is also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Baghdadi died “whimpering and crying” in a dead-end tunnel. His death shows America’s “commitment to the defeat of ISIS and other terrorist organizations," the president said. "We know the successors,” he added. And we already have them in our sights. Efforts to find them may be helped by the raid on Baghdadi’s camp in the Syrian province of Idlib. The raid led to the capture of a small number of Islamic State group officials and fighters.