Islamic State announces successor to Baghdadi, vows revenge against US

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Islamic State group declared a new leader on Thursday after it confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi days earlier in a US raid in Syria.

In its audio release by the IS central media arm, al-Furqan Foundation, a new spokesman for IS identifies the successor as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi - tracing his lineage, like Baghdadi, to the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe.

It provided no other details about Qurayshi and it was not immediately clear who the name was in reference to. The group typically identifies its leaders using noms de guerre that refer to their tribal affiliation and lineage. Those names often change.