CABRERA: It's been a week since ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself after being cornered by U.S. forces, but the terror group isn't dead yet. They had claimed responsibility for three attacks this week that left at least 56 people dead, although it offered no proof it carried them out. CNN's Sam Kiley explains what these latest attacks say about the terror group's viability following the death of its leader.</s>SAM KILEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the murder of Malian soldiers on Friday and then a subsequent killing the following day of a French soldier in that same country. This should be seen really as part of their attempt to claim responsibility whether or not they actually participated in any of these terrorist acts because their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is dead and the territory that they once controlled that made them so magnetic around the world is no -- no longer under their control. They have offered absolutely no evidence for their role in these Malian attacks, and we've seen this very frequently in the past. Whether or not there are actual self-starting individuals who claim allegiance to the so-called Islamic State or whether there was an actual plot that had its roots somewhere in the areas under the control of the Islamic State has often been very, very hard to prove. And that really is where the former caliphate is now going to have to focus its efforts in trying to build its brand against the longer more established al Qaeda that never tried to control any state and particularly in places like Afghanistan and Somalia where the Islamic State is trying to get a foothold. Their greatest rivals and greatest threat to them physically is less the international community, drone strikes, driven out of the United States and that kind of thing, but rather al Qaeda. Because al Qaeda wants to remain the premier jihadi organization worldwide. Sam Kiley, CNN, Abu Dhabi.</s>CABRERA: Now back here at home. California suffering from a number of wildfires as President Trump is threatening to pull federal aid to help fight those fires in that state and the governor just responded. You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM.
ISIS Claims Three Attacks Since Naming New Leader