Islamic State says leader's son died in Syria: Amaq

Hudhayfah al-Badri, son of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed during an attack by the jihadists' in the central Syrian province of Homs, the IS propaganda agency Amaq has announced.

Al-Badri was killed in an "operation against the Nussayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power station in Homs," the group said in a statement yesterday.

Nussayriyyah is the term used by IS for the Alawite sect linked to Shiite Islam.