Al-Baghdadi's Death.

President Trump's triumphant announcement of the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is being considered by many as a death blow delivered to the non-state actor that terrorised Iraq, Syria and beyond. Defeats in Mosul, Raqqa and most recently in Baghouz in March for IS have entailed that the group is a shadow of its former self; hopefully the days of public beheadings, executions and many other travesties are now long gone.

But in no way does al-Baghdadi's death imply the end of the Islamic State as a terrorist group. IS is a step ahead in many ways compared to the other terrorist groups globally, one of its main skills and a major reason for its successful recruitment drive across the world was its tech-savvy approach to terrorism and the use of digital media to its advantage. Its formidable presence online still remains a problem - in order to fully dismantle the group's financial and recruitment channels, controlling the group's activity on the ungovernable dark web will be needed in order to ensure that the many global chapters of the organisation are prevented from carrying out terrorist attacks.

This brings us on to the...