AFP's Ankara correspondent Fulya Ozerkan tweets that the first lot of German troops and aircraft has taken off for Turkey as part of a deployment in the anti-IS fight.
Reuters reports this additional information from Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's press briefing this morning.
Zakharova said that there was still no agreement among global powers on the lists of Syrian opposition and terrorist groups.
"Unfortunately, the tempo of this work on the list of the opposition which could be presented in talks with Damascus, as well as on the list of terrorists, is not at the speed...which was presumed after the Vienna meetings," she said.
Zakharova was referring to an agreement made in November that Jordan would coordinate efforts to compile a common list of terrorist groups in Syria.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated this demand in his phone call on December 9 with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Swiss police are searching Geneva for suspects in connection with the Paris attacks, AFP is reporting.
First Chinese Man Reported To Have Gone To Syria To Fight IS
A young Chinese man, Pan Yang from Sichuan Province, has become the first Chinese citizen known to have traveled to Syria to fight alongside Kurdish militias against the IS group, according to the Huaxi Metropolitan Daily newspaper.
Pan's sister, who has called for him to come home, said that her elderly parents had no idea where Syria is or what the IS group is.
Pan Yang told the BBC's Chinese service last week that he was fighting alongside the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
Breaking news from the BBC: Swiss police have raised the terror alert in Geneva acting on intelligence of terror suspects in the city or the wider region.
Israel's chief of the General Staff has said that air strikes alone will not defeat the IS group.
Speaking at a private event today, Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot added that an end to the fighting in Syria and a political settlement depended on cooperation between the United States and Russia.
His comments come after Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said last weekend that the United States should become more active in the fight against IS, adding that a vacuum in Syria was being filled by Russia and Iran.
AP has posted video of the impromptu concert staged last night by Madonna in the Republique Plaza in Paris, which has been used as a public memorial for the 130 people killed in the November 13 attacks.
The IS group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Relatives of those killed in the October 31 crash of Metrojet flight 9268 in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula filed a complaint at a Moscow court today against the head of Russia's Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin.
The IS group's local affiliate in Sinai claimed responsibility for the crash, saying it placed a bomb on board the flight, which had been en route to St Petersburg from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. All 224 of the flight's passengers and crew were killed in the disaster.
A lawyer for the complainants said that the complaint asks the court to recognize the lack of activity on behalf of the Investigative Committee and order Bastrykin to answer the complaints and reports of the victims.
The complainants say they have made two requests to Bastrykin, one of which concerns a decision regarding criminal prosecution of employees of the Ingosstrakh insurance company, which has allegedly fraudulently obtained a declaration from relatives of those killed in the disaster, limiting their right to turn to the court for compensation.
Around 900 residents of Daghestan in Russia's North Caucasus and fighting in Syria, according to the republic's Interior Ministry chief Abdurashid Magomedov.
"Law enforcement authorities in Daghestan have information about around 900 Daghestanis who are right now in Syria in the ranks of the IS group. Some of them have taken their families, children and are guided by pseudoreligious ideas," Magomedov told students at Daghestan State University.
Two of Turkey’s top officials traveled to Baghdad today to try to defuse a diplomatic row with the Iraqi government over the deployment of Turkish troops in northern Iraq, Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News is reporting this morning.
National Intelligence Organization (MİT) head Hakan Fidan and Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu have been sent for a one-day visit to Baghdad, according to the report.