The death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a big step in the fight against Islamic State but the United States still has more work to do, White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Tuesday.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that Baghdadi killed himself during an overnight raid by elite US special operations forces in Syria.
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"Killing the leader was a very big, symbolic victory. I think it was very big for America, big for the world, big for the region. But at the end of the day we still have more work to do," Kushner, who is Trump's son-in-law, told Channel 13 News.
World leaders and security experts have warned that Islamic State, which carried out atrocities against religious minorities and horrified most Muslims, remained a security threat in Syria and beyond even after their leader's death.
Baghdadi died alongside three of his children by detonating an explosives-laden vest when he fled US forces into a dead-end tunnel during the attack in northwest Syria, Trump said.
Kushner, who has been spearheading the Trump administration's plan to end the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, met on Monday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with his centrist election rival Benny Gantz.
