Two men stand in rubble near the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, on Oct. 27, 2019, after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the ISIS terrorist group. The federal government says Canada's national-threat level remains at “medium” despite the leader of the Islamic State group having been killed over the weekend. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Ghaith Alsayed
OTTAWA—The federal government showed no signs Monday of changing Canada’s national-threat level from its current classification of “medium” despite fears in some countries that the Islamic State group will launch retaliatory strikes over the killing of its shadowy leader during a U.S. attack.
On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the little-seen leader of the ISIS terrorist group, killed himself and three of his children during a U.S. special forces operation in Syria.
