The United States has promised to bring to justice the leaders of the Islamic State after the reappearance of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi

The United States vowed Monday to prosecute and bring to justice the surviving leaders of the terrorist group "Islamic State" (ISIS, for its acronym in English), a few hours after the leader of the jihadist organization, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, appeared in a propaganda video.

Washington-led anti-jihadist coalition will fight around the world "guarantee a lasting defeat to these terrorists and ensure that their surviving leaders receive the justice they deserve"said a spokesman for the US State Department in a statement.

Al Baghdadi was shown for the first time in five years in a video broadcast by the jihadist agency Furqan.

On the images, one can see it in the middle of an "informal" conversation with other members of the group, whose faces are censored.

For 18 minutes and 22 seconds, they discuss the fall of Baghouz, The last enclave of the Islamic State in Syria, on the war against the "Crusaders" and on the recent attacks in Sri Lanka.

In the end, he also mentions the fall of the Algerian and Sudanese presidents and ensures that they will now face a "war of attrition" with their enemies.

After years of uncertainty about his life, this would indicate that the material was recently recorded, which confirms that Al Baghdadi would be alive.

US government badysts "They will examine this recording and we will send it to the intelligence community to confirm its authenticity", said the spokesman of the North American State Department.

Regardless of the authenticity of the video, the official pointed to the blow to the Islamic State in recent months by the US-led anti-terrorist coalition.

"The Islamic State's territorial defeat in Iraq and Syria was a strategic and psychological blow when the Islamic State saw the so-called collapse of the Caliphate., its leaders killed or fled the battlefield and exposed its savagery, "he said.

The last appearance of the jihadist leader was in Al Nuri mosque in Mosul in 2014, when he proclaimed the creation of his "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq, now extinct. Since then, dozens of versions have circulated in his life: some indicated that he had been seriously injured, others regarded him directly as dead.