Minister says Turkey has nearly 1,200 foreign members of IS in custody, and captured 287 during recent Syria operation

Says much work still remains

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

More than 70,000 people, mostly women and children, live in the Al-Hol Camp