US donates $21m of kit for Niger militant fight
They have already handed over dozens of armoured vehicles, radio systems, armoured containers
They have already handed over dozens of armoured vehicles, radio systems, armoured containers
US-led coalition airstrikes force more than 1,400 IS fighters, their families to surrender
Undermining a months-long ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia
As militants battle for power with the North African UN-recognised govt
As a missile fired by regime forces crashes near a maternity facility at a makeshift camp for the displaced
He marked Veterans' Day by celebrating the killing of the militants' former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdad
Minister says Turkey has nearly 1,200 foreign members of IS in custody, and captured 287 during recent Syria operation
The blast came despite a truce last week to halt the Turkish assault
Mali's army struggling in the face of a militant revolt that has spread from the arid north to its centre
The militant group appoints a successor to Baghdadi identified as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi
According to analysts, whoever emerges as the new leader will have to pull the group back together as a fighting force
In addition to Baghdadi and the two children, four women and one man were killed at the compound
IS chief killed himself during a US Special Forces' raid by igniting a suicide vest in northwest Syria
Taliban claim IED attack on convoy of US forces in Kandahar